The Nature of Mediterranean Europe - An Ecological History

Name: The Nature of Mediterranean Europe
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Author: A-T Grove
ISBN: 9780300100556

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Oliver Rackham

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Mediterranean Europe - southern Portugal and Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece and the Mediterranean islands - is often interpreted as a 'Lost Eden', once verdant and fertile, then progressively degraded and desertified by human mismanagement and the ignorance and folly of successive civilisations. In this engaging book, two distinguished scholars challenge this pessimistic view.

- Introduction : Ruined Landscapes and the Question of Desertification
- Present Climate and Weather
- Geology and Geomorphology : the Dynamics of a Restless Region
- Plant Life : the Dramatis Personae of Historical Ecology
- Aspects of Human History
- Cultivation Terraces
- Climate in the Last 150 Years : the Period of Instrumental Measurements
- The Little Ice Age : Extreme Weather in Historic Times
- Climate in Early Historic and Prehistory Times
- Vegetation in Prehistory
- Natural Vegetation in Historic Times
- Mediterranean Savanna : Trees without Forests
- Fire : Misfortune or Adaptation ? Current Erosion and its Measurement
- Badlands
- Erosion History and Prehistory : Climate, Weather or Man-Made ? Euro-Deserts and Karst
- Deltas and Soft Coasts
- Over-Use of Ground-Water
- Desertification or Change: what to do about it ?

Date de parution

26/06/2003
Editeur

Yale University Press
ISBN

0-300-10055-8
EAN

9780300100556
Présentation

Broché
Nb. de pages

384 pages
Poids

1.515 Kg
Dimensions

21,5 cm × 28,5 cm × 2,5 cm

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A. T. GROVE, a geographer, is emeritus Fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge. OLIVER RACKHAM, a botanist in the department of forestry, is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.