Overview
- Only book dealing with Mediterranean island landscapes
- Written by Mediterranean islands experts, thus offering first hand knowledge of theory and practice
- Multidisciplinary effort that encompasses an holistic natural and cultural approach
- Incorporation of the socio-political components of landscape dynamics
- Bibliographies to provide general and specialised further reading
- Up to date information on development, conservation and future prospects
- Cultural landscape history and changes in the Mediterranean island environments
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 9)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nature and Culture in Mediterranean Islands
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Mediterranean Island Landscapes
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Future Perspectives
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Back Matter
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About this book
Mediterranean islands exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization and current anthropogenic pressures. This book addresses in three sections these characteristics and examines the major environmental changes that the islands experienced during the Quaternary period. The first section provides details on natural and cultural factors which have shaped island landscapes. It describes the environmental and cultural changes of the Holocene and their effects on biota, as well as on the current human pressures that are now threats to the sustainability of the island communities. The second section focuses on the landscapes of the largest islands namely Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus, Crete, Malta and the Balearics. Each island chapter includes a special topic reflecting a particular characteristic of the island. Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands.
Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner. Students, researchers and university lecturers in environmental science, geography, biology and ecology will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text while planners and politicians will welcome the succinct summaries as background material to planning decisions.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mediterranean Island Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Natural and Cultural Approaches
Editors: Ioannis Vogiatzakis, G. Pungetti, A. M. Mannion
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5064-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5063-3Published: 20 March 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7271-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5064-0Published: 26 February 2008
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 369
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Historical Geology, Ecology, Geography, general, Environment, general, Cultural Heritage