The nature of Mediterranean Europe: an ecological history/
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2003, c2001
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Table of Contents:
- 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 prehistoric 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?