Mittelmeerraum ; Entwaldung; Mittelmeerraum ; Rodung; Deforestation ; Mediterranean Region ; History; Forests and forestry ; Mediterranean Region ; History; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Mediterranean Region Preface ; 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
