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

2008. There is hope that the book “Plant Landscapes of the Mediterranean”, now almost ready for print, can be published in Palermo, perhaps as an issue of Bocconea. Still missing are the chapters on Sicily (to be prepared in 2009), and Lebanon-Syria (would probably be adapted from Mouterde). All other English texts have been collated and edited, whereas the chapters in French (France, Corsica, N Africa) still need to be revised and perhaps translated. An index to genera and species is being prepared. The illustrations (maps and photographs) for most chapters have been assembled: a few hundreds in total, from which an illustration editor will have to operate a selection.

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.

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.

This page last updated 02 November, 2009.