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Mohand Oulmas, Amina Abdessemed-Foufa, Angel Benigno Gonzalez Avilés and José Ignacio Pagán Conesa
This study focuses on assessing the defensiveness of medieval fortresses situated along the Mediterranean coast, including the Northern Algerian coast and Southeastern Spain. The proposed methodology involved a two-fold process comprising identification ...
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Salvador García-Ayllón and Gloria Martínez
The evaluation of anthropogenic impacts on the landscape is an issue that has traditionally been carried out from a descriptive or at least somewhat qualitative perspective. However, in recent years, the technological improvements provided by geographic ...
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Rania Ajmi, Faiza Khebour Allouche, Aude Nuscia Taîbi and Safa Bel Fekih Boussema
As a primary goal, urban green spaces (UGSs) have been linked to several aspects of inhabitants? wellbeing. Quality could be a way to intervene in the UGS?human health interaction. For that purpose, we developed an urban green space quality index (UGS QI...
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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Pierluigi Mancuso
An important process that began in many Mediterranean countries in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, concerns the displacement of a large part of the population from inland to coastal areas, expanding many existing cities and build...
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Alexandra Sintori, Vasilia Konstantidelli, Penelope Gouta and Irene Tzouramani
Olive groves are an important element of the Mediterranean landscape and heritage and contribute significantly to the area?s rural economies. The primary interest of researchers and policymakers lies in the economic performance of this activity, especial...
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Ketrin Lorhayne Kubiak, José Alberto Pereira, Dinéia Tessaro, Sónia A. P. Santos and Jacinto Benhadi-Marín
The olive tree is perfectly adapted to the Mediterranean region, where it represents high economic, social, and landscape importance, olive orchards being an important repository of biodiversity. The order Coleoptera encompasses families that provide imp...
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Ilias Karmiris, Thomas G. Papachristou and Dimitrios Fotakis
Silvopasture, a traditional agroforestry practice, combines the presence of trees, shrubs, herbage, and livestock in time and space to provide multiple ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being. However, the abandonment of traditional agrofo...
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Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Pavel Cudlín, Luca Salvati and Antonio Gimenez-Morera
Climate change leverages landscape transformations and exerts variable pressure on natural environments and rural systems. Earlier studies outlined how Mediterranean Europe has become a global hotspot of climate warming and land use change. The present w...
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Imen Brini, Dimitrios D. Alexakis and Chariton Kalaitzidis
Soil erosion is a severe and continuous environmental problem caused mainly by natural factors, which can be enhanced by anthropogenic activities. The morphological relief with relatively steep slopes, the dense drainage network, and the Mediterranean cl...
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Amanda Sancho-García, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Gracia, Ana Carlota Rodríguez-Gómez and Belén Rubio-Nicolás
The evaluation of coastal damage caused by storms is not straightforward and different approaches can be applied. In this study, damage caused by extreme storms is evaluated at a regional scale based on news information published in regional newspapers. ...
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