The changing face of the Mediterranean – Land cover, demography and environmental change: Introduction and overview
2019
Bevan, Andrew | Palmisano, Alessio | Woodbridge, Jessie | Fyfe, Ralph | Roberts, C Neil | Shennan, Stephen
This paper introduces a special issue on The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Land Cover, Demography, and Environmental Change, which brings together up-to-date regional or thematic perspectives on major long-term trends in Mediterranean human–environment relations. Particularly, important insights are provided by palynology to reconstruct past vegetation and land cover, and archaeology to establish long-term demographic trends, but with further significant input from palaeoclimatology, palaeofire research and geomorphology. Here, we introduce the rationale behind this pan-Mediterranean research initiative, outline its major sources of evidence and method, and describe how individual submissions work to complement one another.
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