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The nature of Mediterranean Europe : an ecological history

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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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Yale University Press
0300100558 / 9780300100556
Paperback / softback
31/12/2001
United States
English
384 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
29 cm
undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 2001.