Mediterranean Island Landscapes Natural and Cultural Approaches
Mediterranean islands exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization and current anthropogenic pressures. This book addresses in three
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Landscape Series Volume 9
Series Editors: Henri Décamps, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France Bärbel Tress, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK Gunther Tress, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK
Aims and Scope Springer’s innovative Landscape Series is committed to publishing high-quality manuscripts that approach the concept of landscape from a broad range of perspectives. Encouraging contributions on theory development, as well as more applied studies, the series attracts outstanding research from the natural and social sciences, and from the humanities and the arts. It also provides a leading forum for publications from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams. Drawing on, and synthesising, this integrative approach the Springer Landscape Series aims to add new and innovative insights into the multidimensional nature of landscapes. Landscapes provide homes and livelihoods to diverse peoples; they house historic – and prehistoric – artefacts; and they comprise complex physical, chemical and biological systems. They are also shaped and governed by human societies who base their existence on the use of the natural resources; people enjoy the aesthetic qualities and recreational facilities of landscapes, and people design new landscapes. As interested in identifying best practice as it is in progressing landscape theory, the Landscape Series particularly welcomes problem-solving approaches and contributions to landscape management and planning. The ultimate goal is to facilitate both the application of landscape research to practice, and the feedback from practice into research.
I.N. Vogiatzakis • G. Pungetti • A.M. Mannion Editors
Mediterranean Island Landscapes Natural and Cultural Approaches
I.N. Vogiatzakis Centre for Agri-Environmental Research School of Agriculture Policy and Development University of Reading Earley Gate RG6 6AR Reading Berks UK
G. Pungetti CCLP & University of Cambridge UK
A.M. Mannion University of Reading UK
ISBN 978-1-4020-5063-3
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-5064-0
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Editors’ Profiles
Dr Ioannis Vogiatzakis is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER) at the University of Reading and a visiting Lecturer at the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina. With a PhD on the vegetation of Crete, he is an expert on Mediterranean ecology and has specific research and teaching interests in nature conservation of Mediterranean island ecosystems. He
