Geographies of Mediterranean Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. The Current Legacy of Geographies in Mediterranean Europe

   • Rubén C. Lois-González

   Pages 1-11

3. The Great Contributions of Mediterranean Geographical Thought

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Geography as a Social Science in Portugal

      • José Rio Fernandes, João Ferrão, Jorge Malheiros, Pedro Chamusca

      Pages 15-37

   3. Spanish Geographical Thought in the Present: Its Influence and Original Proposals in a Context Dominated by Tradition

      • Rubén C. Lois-González

      Pages 39-76

   4. Geography and Territorial Planning in Italy

      • Piergiorgio Landini

      Pages 77-101

4. Relevant Topics of Study in Mediterranean Geography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. (Physical) Geography and Environmental Issues in Portugal

      • Lúcio Cunha

      Pages 105-120

   3. Climate and Water on the Spanish Mediterranean Coast: Challenges for the Future

      • Jorge Olcina Cantos, María Hernández Hernández

      Pages 121-143

   4. Geographies of the South. The Study of the Rural Landscape in Portugal: Southern Unicity in Patterns and Changing Functions

      • Teresa Pinto-Correia

      Pages 145-165

   5. Turkey: Clımate Variability, Extreme Temperature, and Precipitation

      • Barbaros Gönençgil, Zahide Acar

      Pages 167-180

   6. Utopian and Developmental Mediterranean Spaces: The Example of the Inland Sea of Martins, Lavigne, Roudaire et al. (1869–1892)

      • Jean-Yves Puyo

      Pages 181-200

   7. The “Soft City” of EU Power Elites: Athens from Neoclassical Capital to “Oriental” Margin

      • Lila Leontidou

      Pages 201-219

   8. The Geography of Retailing in France: More than 40 Years of Researches

      • Nathalie Lemarchand, Louis Dupont

      Pages 221-242

   9. Retail Geography in Italy: Historical Evolution and Future Challenges

      • Caterina Cirelli, Teresa Graziano, Leonardo Mercatanti, Enrico Nicosia, Carmelo Maria Porto

      Pages 243-266

   10. Mediterranean Borders and Diaspora

       • Vincenzo Guarrasi

       Pages 267-285

   11. Does the Future Belong to Mediterranean Cities?

       • Lucrezia Lopez

       Pages 287-308

5. Applied Geographic Thinking: Education and Spatial Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309

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   2. A Model of Development of Transport Between Spain and France: Between Recovery, Imitation, Improvement and Divergence

      • Jean-Pierre Wolff

      Pages 311-336

   3. Regions, Nationalities, Nations? Contemporary Geographic Images of Spain’s Regional Diversity

      • Jacobo García-Álvarez

      Pages 337-356

This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent decades. This thematically arranged book takes into account the national differences of the authors, but also highlights the main contributions of Mediterranean geographies on a global scale. It reinforces a perception of common problems and debates in Southern Europe. 
This book appeals to the institutionalized geographical community of Mediterranean countries but also to a global audience of scholars of geography, territorial and spatial studies, social sciences and history. 

• Mediterranean Geography
• International Geographical Congress
• Mediterranean comparative geography
• Territorial organisation
• France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece
• Mediterranean Europe
• Cradle of Western Civilization
• Geography of Southern Europe
• Comparative Geographical Analysis
• Territorial Thinking
• Theory of Geography
• Environmental Studies
• world regional geography
• historical geography
• urban geography and urbanism

• Vice President of the IGU/UGI, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  Rubén Camilo Lois-González

​Rubén C. Lois-González has been a Professor of geography of the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2007 (previously Senior Lecturer and Lecturer). His specialties are urban and cultural geography.


Prof. Lois-González authored of over 150 indexed articles in academic journals as Annales de Géographie, Die Erde, Mobilities. European Planning Studies, Land, Use & Policy, Sustainibility, Gender, Place and Culture, Tourism Géographies, Tourism Management Perspectives, Sud-Ouest Européen, Scripta Nova, Boletin de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, etc. He has been principal investigator of European projects of the ESPON program, RISE, INTERREG and partner of FP5 or Norwegian and French programs.


He has been a visiting Professor at the universities of Le Mans, Caen, Toulouse-Le Mirail (Francia), Bergen (Noruega), Federal de Bahia (Brasil) and Messina (Italy). He  was a member of the Committee of Habilitation in Geography of the MIUR from 2012 until 2014 and evaluated from the ANVUR from 2016 in Italy. He has been the Coordinator of the evaluations of the National Plan of R&D in geography in Spain from 2015 and evaluator of the Romanian and Poruguese research agency.


Rubén Lois-González  is Vice-President of International Geographical Union (IGU) from 2018,  one of the Founders of the Order of Spanish geographers, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Spanish Geographers since 2017 and the Spanish Committee of the IGU today. He was a director of the network of universities Galicia-North of Portugal from 2013 to the end of 2017. 

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