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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean - Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present (Paperback)
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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean - Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
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The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and
land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human
exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental
Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social
aspects of this region, in relation to its environment. Ideal for
students who are studying a range of environmental issues, but want
to see them linked within one regional context. The book begins
with an introduction to the Mediterranean region, its history,
physical and human geography and its environmental problems. It
then goes on to examine: * The Dynamic Environment - climate
variables and fluctuations, vegetation, the hydrological cycle of
the basin and its watershed, processes of erosion, fire and the
Mediterranean Sea *The Human Impact on the Environment -
prehistoric and historic land use, traditional agriculture, rural
and urban settlement and use of mineral resources * The
Mediterranean Environment Under Increasing Pressure - the present
human landscape, changes in agriculture in the 20th century, the
impact of depopulation, pollution, water resources, desertification
and potential climatic change. It then concludes with a discussion
of the region's on-going environmental issues of water resources,
land degradation, agricultural intensification and tourism, and
considers how these can be approached using management techniques
and national and regional policies.
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