The Nature of Mediterranean Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Mediterranean Europe write by Alfred Thomas Grove. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Nature of Mediterranean Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This large volume draws on evidence from fieldwork, historical records, archaeology, pollen analysis and recent research in discussing the ecology of Mediterranean Europe from the past to the present day. Grove and Rackham provide clear explanations and discussions of different ecosystems, of ruined landscapes, climate fluctuations and vegetation change, the impact of fire, terracing, agriculture and man's changing subsistence strategies, of coastal erosion and deforestation. A highly readable book, packed full of information, which also assesses the pessimistic view that many people hold over the future of the landscape and environment.
Mediterranean Ecogeography
Mediterranean Ecogeography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Ecogeography write by Harriett Allen. This book was released on 2014-09-25. Mediterranean Ecogeography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A core textbook series that aims to provide students with accessible, up-to-date accounts of Ecogeography - the marriage of ecology with geography - in the primary terrestrial and marine environments. This is the first book in the series on Mediterranean Ecogeography. Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin is amongst the highest of any region on earth, both in terms of total species numbers and endemism. The flora is estimated at about 25,000 species of flowering plants and ferns, compared with about 6000 species in non-Mediterranean Europe. About 50% of these are endemic. Diversity amongst vertebrate animals is also high, though endemism rates are lower than for plants. The high levels of diversity contribute to, and are a reflection of, the considerable variability of landscape. This results from a combination of factors including geological and tectonic history, relief and physiography, climate, geomorphological processes, hydrology, soils, the incidence of fires and impact of human activities. The landscapes of the Mediterranean Basin are thus varied and fragmented; a mosaic of ecosystems and communities. Mediterranean Ecogeography aims to examine and explain this heterogeneity, and the approach is focused on the ecogeography of the region. Analysing the factors which account for the present distributions of plants and animals, and the functioning of ecosystems within the Mediterranean Basin can help in the understanding of the relationship between people and natural ecosystems. A key to the conservation of these ecosystems is the wise use of resources, biological and physical. In addition, it is vital to assess how the natural environments of the region will respond to further change. In the last twenty years, understanding of the functioning of mediterranean-type ecosystems has advanced through several international projects. This book draws upon the findings of these, and other research in the Mediterranean Basin, to present a comprehensive text on a key region of the world, and the problems and prospects of its environmental exploitation.
Geographies of Mediterranean Europe
Geographies of Mediterranean Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Mediterranean Europe write by Rubén Camilo Lois-González. This book was released on 2021-12-13. Geographies of Mediterranean Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
European landscapes and lifestyles: the Mediterranean and beyond
European landscapes and lifestyles: the Mediterranean and beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European landscapes and lifestyles: the Mediterranean and beyond write by Zoran Roca. This book was released on 2007. European landscapes and lifestyles: the Mediterranean and beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mediterranean Europe(s)
Mediterranean Europe(s) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Europe(s) write by Matthew D’Auria. This book was released on 2022-09-26. Mediterranean Europe(s) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in most histories of the idea of Europe the Mediterranean is conspicuously absent. This might partly be explained by the fact that historians have often identified Europe with modernity (and the Atlantic world) and, therefore, in opposition to the classical world (centred around the Mediterranean). This book will challenge such views, showing that a plethora of thinkers, from the early nineteenth century to the present, have refused to relegate the Mediterranean to the past. Importance is given to the idea of a distinct ‘meridian thought’, a notion first set forth by Albert Camus and now reworked by French and Italian thinkers. As most chapters argue, this might represent an important tool for rethinking the Mediterranean and, in turn, it might help us challenge received notions about European identity and rethink Europe as the locus of ‘modernity’. Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in European studies and Mediterranean history.
