“Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past” is the title of the new collective volume, co-edited by Ioannis Vogiatzakis, Professor at the postgraduate programme «Environmental Conservation and Management» of the Open University of Cyprus and Theano S. Terkenlis, Maria Gabriella Trovato and Nizar Abu-Jaber. The publication is a printed and web edition of the Special Issue with the same title that was published in Land, an open access scientific journal, and is a useful resource for academics and researchers alike.
“Landscapes” results from the interplay of physical, natural, and human/cultural elements of our surroundings and the way that people perceive these interactions. Given that landscape is considered one of the key themes of policies for environmental and territorial sustainability and has been on the political agenda of European countries, this collective volume aims to facilitate the broader application of landscape character assessment in an Eastern Mediterranean context, in accordance with local and regional conditions and particularities, by critically extrapolating methods and techniques which are well-established in Europe.
