Mediterranean Europe - southern Portugal and Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece and the Mediterranean islands - is often interpreted as a "Lost Eden", once verdant and fertile, then progressively degraded and desertified by human mismanagement and the ignorance and folly of successive civilizations. In this ecological history, two scholars seek to challenge this pessimistic view.
- ISBN10 0300100558
- ISBN13 9780300100556
- Publish Date 31 December 2001 (first published 8 February 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English