Towards a sustainable development in Mediterranean Mountains

Mediterranean mountains still contain a rich heritage of biological diversity and cultural landscapes that have evolved over many centuries. In the beginning of the 21^st century, globalization and the building of larger EU processes might pose new threats to the cultural and biological diversity of Mediterranean mountain societies.

Mediterranean mountains
1. Pyrenees and Iberian Mountains (including Levantine and Central ranges and Sierra Nevada)
2. Atlas Mountains (including all the ranges from Morocco to Tunisia, High and Middle Atlas, Rif Mts. and Djudjura Mts.)
3. Apennines
4. Mountains on Mediterranean Islands (Majorca, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete and Cyprus)
5. Greek Mts. (Peloponese, Pindus, Olympus)
6. Taurus Mts. and W and NW Anatolian mountains
7. Lebanese and Syrian ranges