The Nature of Mediterranean Europe – An Ecological History - Softcover

A.T. Grove; Oliver Rackham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300100558 ISBN 13: 9780300100556

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 civilizations. In this ecological history, two scholars seek to challenge this pessimistic view.

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Mediterranean Europe 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 civilizations. In this ecological history, two scholars seek to challenge this pessimistic view.

Review:

"a wry, scholarly and beautifully written book" -- Charles Clover, Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300100558
• ISBN 13: 9780300100556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384