The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological HistoryYale University Press, 01/01/2003 - 384 páginas "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 engaging book, two distinguished scholars challange this pessimistic view"--Back cover. |
Índice
Acknowledgements | 6 |
Ruined Landscapes and the Question of Desertification | 8 |
Present Climate and Weather | 34 |
the Dynamics of a Restless Region | 37 |
the Dramatis Personae of Historical Ecology | 45 |
Aspects of Human History | 72 |
Cultivation Terraces | 107 |
the Period of Instrumental Measurements | 119 |
Misfortune or Adaptation? | 217 |
Current Erosion and its Measurement | 241 |
Badlands | 271 |
Climate Weather or ManMade? | 288 |
EuroDeserts and Karst | 312 |
Deltas and Soft Coasts | 328 |
OverUse of GroundWater | 351 |
what to do about it? | 361 |
Extreme Weather in Historic Times | 130 |
Climate in Early Historic and Prehistoric Times | 141 |
ΙΟ Vegetation in Prehistory | 151 |
Natural Vegetation in Historic Times | 167 |
Trees without Forests | 190 |
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The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History Alfred Thomas Grove,Oliver Rackham Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
agriculture alluvial Almería Alpujarra ancient archaeological Argolid arid badlands Basilicata basin Bronze Age browsing burning burnt catchment cent century Chapter chestnut cliffs climate coast coppice cork-oak Cretan Crete crops cultivation Dalías deciduous deciduous oak delta deluges deposits desert desertification drought Ebro eroded erosion especially European evergreen evidence fire floods forest France glacial Göschenen Greece grow gullies Holocene human activity increased irrigation island Italy karst lake land landscape less limestone Little Ice Age live-oak maquis marls medieval Mediterranean metres mountains Neolithic olives pasture Peloponnese period phrygana pine pinewoods plain plants Pleistocene ploughed pollards pollen Pómbia population Portugal prickly-oak Provence Rackham rain rainfall record river rocks Roman runoff Sardinia savanna sea-level sediment shrubs Sierra Sierra de Gádor silt slopes soil southern Europe Spain steppe terraces timber tion trees undershrubs valley vegetation villages vines west Crete winter wood woodland
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