Table of Contents

PART 1: THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Jamie Woodward: Editorial Introduction
1: Anne Mather: Tectonic setting and landscape development
2: Eelco Rohling, Ramadan Abu-Zied, James Casford, Angela Hayes and Babette Hoogakker: The marine environment: present and past
3: Andrew Harding, Jean Palutikof, and Tom Holt: The climate system
4: Chronis Tzedakis: Cenozoic climate and vegetation change
5: Jacques Blondel: The nature and origin of the vertebrate fauna
PART 2: PROCESS AND CHANGE IN SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS
Jamie Woodward: Editorial Introduction
6: John Wainwright: Weathering, soils and slope processes
7: Harriet Allen: Vegetation and ecosystem dynamics
8: John Thornes, Francisco Lopez-Bermudez and Jamie Woodward: Hydrology, river regimes and sediment yield
9: Neil Roberts and Jane Reed: Lakes, wetlands and Holocene environmental change
10: John Lewin and Jamie Woodward: Karst geomorphology
11: Mark Macklin and Jamie Woodward: River systems and environmental change
12: Philip Hughes and Jamie Woodward: Glacial and periglacial environments
13: Iain Stewart and Christophe Morhange: Coastal geomorphology and sea-level change
14: Andrew Goudie: Aeolian processes and landforms
PART 3: HAZARDS
Jamie Woodward: Editorial Introduction
15: Clive Oppenheimer and David Pyle: Volcanoes
16: Stathis Stiros: Earthquakes
17: Gerassimos Papadopoulos: Tsunamis
18: Maria-Carmen Llasat: Storms and floods
19: Francisco Lloret, Josep Pinol and Marc Castellnou: Wildfires
PART 4: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Jamie Woodward: Editorial Introduction
20: John Thornes: Land degradation
21: Jean Margat: Water resources
22: Jos Lelieveld: Air pollution and climate
23: Jacques Blondel and Frederic Medail: Biodiversity and conservation

About the Author

Jamie Woodward is Professor of Physical Geography at The University of Manchester. He has worked on the geomorphology and Quaternary history of the Mediterranean region for over two decades. He is especially interested in fluvial, glacial and karst sediment systems. A good deal of this research takes place in collaboration with archaeologists and Jamie is interested in human-environment interactions across a range of timescales. He is the Co-Editor of
Geoarchaeology: An International Journal and he is the Quaternary Science and Geomorphology Editor for the Journal of the Geological Society of London.

Reviews

...the two words which immediately suggest themselves when reading this volume are authoritative and comprehensiveThe impressive aspect of this volume is that the authors that the editor has chosen to write the constituent chapters are exactly the people youd want to hear from on those subjects...
*Proceedings of the Geologists' Association*

The uniqueness of this new book is that it attempts, and largely succeeds, in producing, within a single volume, a review of the entire Mediterranean landscape; the factors responsible for its creation, the role of past environmental change, the processes that have shaped it, the response of those processes to environmental change, the physical hazards of the region and the response of the region to human impacts and future climate change... The impressive aspect of this volume is that the authors that the editor has chosen to write the constituent chapters are exactly the people you'd want to hear from on those subjects.
*Ian Candy, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association*

The main strength of the book lies in its impressive detail on the physical geography of this region, which makes it an unrivalled resource on the physical geography of the Mediterranean in one volume.
*Richard Shakesby, Swansea University, reviewed in The Holocene*