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European Landscapes and Lifestyles: The Mediterranean and Beyond
Edited by Zoran Roca, Theo Spek, Theano Terkenli, Tobias Plieninger and Franz Hochtl
Edicoes Universitarias Lusofonas, Lisboa, Portugal, ISBN: 978-972-8881-35-1, 475 pp.
Edited by Zoran Roca, Theo Spek, Theano Terkenli, Tobias Plieninger and Franz Hochtl, this book brings forwards 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 revising 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 on 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.
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