Commission
for the Diffusion on Knowledge on Mediterranean Plants
(2007-2013)
Secretary: U. Plitmann, Jarusalem
Members: V. H. Heywood, Reading
J. M. Iriondo, Madrid
J. Mathez, Montpellier
O. Vasić, Beograd
2004-2006. The Commission for the Diffusion of Knowledge
on Mediterranean Plants convened at the XI OPTIMA Meeting in
Belgrade
. It was decided that the book “Plant
Landscapes of the
Mediterranean
” should be
published by a private publisher. Prof. Heywood will be in charge of the actual
publication and he will contact publishers such as Oxford University Press. The
Secretary of the Commission will send Prof. Heywood the following:
1) The
book´s contents in detail.
2) A
synopsis which may contain the abstracts of the Symposium on "Landscape
Ecology of the
Mediterranean
".
3) The
rationale behind the book.
4) A
list of contributors.
5) Expected
readers and their estimated numbers.
6) Preliminary
edited chapters.
With regard
to progress made this year, most of the chapters have already been revised.
However, the chapters corresponding to the Balkan Peninsula and Lebanon-Syria
are still in preparation, and the chapters on
Sicily
and cultivated landscapes should be
finished soon. However, the first edition of the book will be published with or
without these chapters. A translator is also being sought for to translate
three chapters in French (
North Africa
,
France
and
Corsica
)
to English. The Commission is open to suggestions in this respect. At a later
stage, authors will be requested to provide photos and maps.
At the XI
OPTIMA Meeting in
Belgrade
highlights or
extracts of certain chapters of the book were presented in the symposium
"Landscape Ecology of the
Mediterranean
".
2007. Prof. Heywood has been in touch with Cambridge
University Press and Kew Publications. An accurate estimate of page size with
illustrations is needed before coming to a view on the book’s commercial
viability.
This page last updated 7 October,
2007.
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