Man and the Mediterranean forest : a history of resource depletion

London

1981

X, 194 S.

Kt.

Monographie

0-12-687250-3

17236

189774

Mittelmeerraum ; Entwaldung; Mittelmeerraum ; Rodung; Deforestation ; Mediterranean Region ; History; Forests and forestry ; Mediterranean Region ; History; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Mediterranean RegionPreface ; Sources and Acknowledgements ; The Deforestation of the Mediterranean Basin ; The problems in evaluating the evidence ; Vegetational changes ; The definition of forest types and the silvo-pastoral-arable mosaic ; The literature of antiquity ; Agents of deforestation ; Climate ; Cultivation ; Exploitation for timber and fuel. Shipbuilding ; Management practices in antiquity ; Exploitation since the classical period ; Industry ; Wars and invasion ; Population ; Fire ; Grazing ; Notes ; The Deforestation of the Levant ; Levantine woodland vegetation past and present ; Egypt ; Lebanon ; Syria ; Palestine ; Notes ; Forests and Forestry in Cyprus—A Case Study ; Forestry during the British period ; Man and the Mediterranean Forest; Forestry under the Republic; Notes; The Zone of Tension; The Mediterranean situation today; The significance of the Mediterranean experience; The problem; The solution