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European Landscapes and Lifestyles: The Mediterranean and Beyond

The present book brings forward new building blocks for the construction of an open-ended “European story” of the changing relations between nature and society, and pays tribute to the diversity of past and present landscapes and lifestyles across the entire continent - from revisiting the forgotten Aegean islets and the Antiquity of Crete and the Peloponnesus, to detecting ephemeral landscapes in the periurban fringes in Sweden ; from assessing environmental and socioeconomic effects of transition in Latvian agriculture and nature- protection policies in Poland, to reinterpreting the vanishing Spanish dehesas and literary accounts of landscapes and lifestyles in rural Portugal ; from questioning identity aspirations in French Aquitaine and Slovenian Istria, to foreseeing the attractiveness of depopulated regions for retired Germans. This colourful mosaic of regional and local case studies is displayed in the framework, first, of comparative studies of the Mediterranean nature, economy and culture within and beyond Europe, and, second, of new ideas on how to grasp the changing landscapes and lifestyles within the time-space nexus and/or along the local-global interface.

Europe; Landscapes; Lifestyles; The Mediterranean

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