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Environmental issues in the Mediterranean : processes and perspectives from the past and present / John Wainwright and John B. Thornes.
- Title
- Environmental issues in the Mediterranean : processes and perspectives from the past and present / John Wainwright and John B. Thornes.
- Author
- Wainwright, John, 1967-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Thornes, John B.
- Description
- xxviii, 479 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-468) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Mediterranean region in its context -- The geological setting -- The Mediterranean climate and its evolution -- Vegetation -- The hydrological cycle of the basin and its watershed -- Erosion processes -- Fire -- The Mediterranean Sea -- Background to prehistoric and historic land use -- Traditional land-use patterns 1 : agriculture -- Traditional land-use patterns 2 : rural settlement -- Traditional land-use patterns 3 : urban settlement -- Traditional land-use patterns 4 : use of mineral resources -- The present human landscape -- Agricultural changes in the twentieth century -- The impact of depopulation -- Pollution -- Water resources -- The desertification problem -- Potential climatic change and its effects -- Key issues for mitigation.
- ISBN
- 0415156866 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003002187
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library