What does Venice look like when observed from the perspective of climate change, environmental collapse, and human-animal relations in an age of industrialization and mass extinction? That is, as a privileged observatory of the Anthropocene?

Published by wetlands and edited by Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi, Lucio De Capitani, and Pietro Omodeo, this guidebook is intended as a tool for learning about the city in a new way. Venice emerges here as a unique ecosystem at risk, but also as a key to understanding our increasingly vulnerable world.

What stories of extinction lie behind local delicacies like baccalà mantecato? It was a pleasure to pose this question in the chapter “Baccalà in Venice, Cod in the World.”

The book is available, as of today, in both English and Italian editions.