Mediterranean Islands
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Change And Resilience
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Author : Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Change And Resilience written by Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with History categories.
Change and Resilience offers a view of the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity because Mediterranean islands can contribute in fundamental ways to our understanding not only of earlier colonizations but also later periods. The volume explores specifically the time frame from the fall of the Roman empire to the Medieval period. A first group of papers covers islands and island groups in the Central and Western Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and the Adriatic islands. Together, these five papers highlight several common themes across the region: local or indigenous sites were often reoccupied in Late Antiquity, the rural countryside typically played a significant role in the contributions of islands to wider Mediterranean economic networks, and islands big and small often played significant roles in shifting political and religious power. The second group focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean. Three papers cover a range of islands, including Crete, the Cyclades, and Cyprus. Together they emphasize the impacts external shifts in political power and economic ties in the Eastern Mediterranean had on island landscapes, as well as the connected relationship between sacred space and territorial occupation across many of these islands. The final group of papers pivots on changing perceptions of island landscapes in Late Antiquityor island mindscapes. Three papers focus on how communities adapted as they underwent Christianization in island contexts, emphasizing the diverse and varied ways that island landscapes became Christianized, as well as how other political and economic factors shaped the dynamics of change.
Mediterranean Island Landscapes
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Author : Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-02-26
Mediterranean Island Landscapes written by Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-26 with Science categories.
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 sections these characteristics and examines the major environmental changes that the islands experienced during the Quaternary period. The first section provides details on natural and cultural factors which have shaped island landscapes. It describes the environmental and cultural changes of the Holocene and their effects on biota, as well as on the current human pressures that are now threats to the sustainability of the island communities. The second section focuses on the landscapes of the largest islands namely Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus, Crete, Malta and the Balearics. Each island chapter includes a special topic reflecting a particular characteristic of the island. Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands. Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner. Students, researchers and university lecturers in environmental science, geography, biology and ecology will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text while planners and politicians will welcome the succinct summaries as background material to planning decisions.
Mediterranean Islands
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Author : Charles Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Survival Books
Release Date : 2008
Mediterranean Islands written by Charles Arnold and has been published by Survival Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Islands of the Mediterranean categories.
?This guide catalogs and comprehensively maps nearly 1,000 islands and islets for the ?rst time, and provides statistics for all 218 islands that provide accommodation-with each island described and ranked by crowd factor, greenness, beaches and history.
The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants
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Author : Bertrand de Montmollin
language : en
Publisher: IUCN
Release Date : 2005
The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants written by Bertrand de Montmollin and has been published by IUCN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Nature categories.
The flora of the Mediterranean islands includes many rare and localized species unique to the islands. Some of these are particularly threatened with extinction due to various pressures caused by people and their activities in Mediterranean ecosystems. It includes 50 descriptive sheets of species which are especially threatened, based on the IUCN Red List criteria. Each sheet gives a description of the species with illustrations and maps, emphasizing the threats to the species, existing conservation measures and additional measures needed for their conservation. Aimed at the layman, the text is easily accessible to the non-botanist.
Islands Of The Mediterranean
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Author : Paul Wilstach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Islands Of The Mediterranean written by Paul Wilstach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Mediterranean Sea categories.
The Islands Of The Eastern Mediterranean
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Author : Ozlem Caykent
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-28
The Islands Of The Eastern Mediterranean written by Ozlem Caykent and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with History categories.
The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way of understanding the history of the societies which have flourished in the region. The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean charts the story of the water as both connector and border, and analyses the islands role in world history. Covering Mehmed II's efforts to conquer the old Roman Empire, through to the claims of Rhodes and the role of the Aegean Islands in Ottoman international relations, to the British in Cyprus and the present-day tensions, this book's interconnected essays from leading scholars form a tapestry of knowledge. Together, they represent a new frontier in the way in which we look at sea histories. This will become essential reading for scholars of History, International Relations, Trade and Migration.
Islands In Time
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Author : Mark Patton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Islands In Time written by Mark Patton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Social Science categories.
Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation on the development of human communities. Evidence is drawn from a broad range of Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia.
Mediterranean Islands And Sustainable Tourism Development
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Author : Dimitri Ioannides
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 2001
Mediterranean Islands And Sustainable Tourism Development written by Dimitri Ioannides and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Due to their fragile economies and infrastructures, research on Mediteranean islands reveals a great deal about the impact of tourism. This volume focuses on issues specific to tourism in the Mediterranean, with contributors from the United States, the United Kingdon and continental Europe.
Mediterranean Islands Fragile Communities And Persistent Landscapes
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Author : Andrew Bevan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-31
Mediterranean Islands Fragile Communities And Persistent Landscapes written by Andrew Bevan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes, including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization, and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks, serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists, political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use histories.
Mediterranean Voyages
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Author : Helen Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07
Mediterranean Voyages written by Helen Dawson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with History categories.
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display different attitudes toward the land and the sea, which in turn cast light on group identities. This volume advances theoretical discussions of island archaeology by offering a comparative study of the archaeology of colonisation, abandonment, and resettlement of the Mediterranean islands in prehistory. This comparative and thematic study encourages anthropological reflections on the archaeology of the islands, ultimately focusing on people rather than geographical units, and specifically on the relations between islanders, mainlanders, and the creation of islander identities. This volume has significance for scholars interested in Mediterranean archaeology, as well as those interested more broadly in colonisation and abandonment.