Author Biography
Nicolas Maughan is conducting research in environmental sciences and environmental history at the University of Aix-Marseille (AMU) in Marseille. His research interests include urban environmental history, water pollution history, history of urban rivers and wetlands, history of water management and hydraulic technology (drainage, irrigation, water supply, sanitary facilities, flood protection and dredging), history of damming and transformation of rivers, and the history of waste and wastewater management in urban settings. He is also interested in environmental history of waterborne infectious diseases like diarrhea, cholera, and typhoid fever in cities. He especially explores Europe and the Mediterranean world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
