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.
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