THE NATURE OF MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE: AN ECOLOGICAL HISTORY edited by A. T. Grove and Oliver Rackham, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001. No. of pages: 384. Price: £45. ISBN 0 300 08443 9.

The nature of mediterranean Europe: an e

The nature of mediterranean Europe: an ecological history, A. T. Grove and O. Rackham, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 2001. ISBN 0 300 08443 9 (hardback), £45.00, 384 pp.

✍ D. A. Thompson 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 40 KB

This volume is largely, though not entirely, derived from the authors' participation in a series of EU-funded projects in the 1990s under the collective name MEDALUS (Mediterranean Deserti®cation and Land Use). In the acknowledgements and the introductory chapter it quickly becomes clear that the a