Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

Soil erosion is a key factor in Mediterranean environments, and is not only closely related to
geoecological factors (lithology, topography, and climatology) but also to land-use and plant …

Land use and management influence the magnitude of soil loss. Among the different soil
erosion risk factors, the cover-management factor (C-factor) is the one that policy makers …

Soil erosion in terrestrial ecosystems, as an important global environmental problem,
significantly impacts on environmental quality and social economy. By protecting soil from …

Farmland abandonment is a major problem in parts of Europe, particularly in mountain
areas and semiarid environments. In such places, farmland abandonment represents a …

Intense erosion processes are widespread in the Mediterranean region, and include sheet
wash erosion, rilling, gullying, shallow landsliding, and the development of large and active …

Check dams have been used throughout the world for a variety of purposes including torrent
control, water supply enhancement, agricultural land development, and watershed …

The Mediterranean basin is considered one of the most vulnerable regions of the world to
climate change and such changes impact the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and …

Land degradation affects natural and cultivated socio-ecosystems worldwide. Soil erosion is
one of the main processes leading to land degradation, and the process is accelerated by …

Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains
have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of …