Environmental Sustainability and Global Change

Forests, Agriculture, and Soils VIS À VIS Human Disturbance

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Environmental Sustainability and Global Change: Forests, Agriculture, and Soils vis à vis Human Disturbance offers an integrated approach to the socio-environmental dynamics of the ecological-economic nexus characteristic of Mediterranean landscapes. Evidencing the role of policies targeting sustainable development goals in Southern Europe, case studies from Italy, Spain, and Greece confirm the need of place-specific approaches to socio-ecological complexity and the partial effectiveness of generalized, top-down measures. Authored by leading scholars in Southern Europe - with eminent contributions from Eastern Europe - the book identifies the intrinsic peculiarity of the environmental-economic nexus characteristic of the Northern Mediterranean basin, along with important regional differences.Stimulating a spatial planning for rural areas, the book proposes a dynamic image of Mediterranean rural landscapes, providing novel interpretations, conceptual definitions, and operational tools designed to reduce ecological fragility and economic vulnerability.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Umwelt Angewandte Ökologie Biodiversität (Artenvielfalt) / Ökosysteme
• ISBN: 9780443315961
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2024
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Herausgegeben von: Luca Salvati