The volume contains 12 papers of a symposium organised by the editor and Massimo Cultraro [Catania] in the Villa Vigoni in Upper Italy from 3rd to 6th April 2018. It is divided into chapters on “Landscape and culture”, “Water-sea-sediment”, “Nature and urban space”, “Resources”, “Sustainability”, and “Man and nature”. An introduction is followed by contributions on historical landscape sciences, sea-level changes in Eastern Sicily, geo-bio archives in Western Anatolia, water resources of Punic cities, geoarchaeological evidence for the abandonment of the Roman baths at Thermae Himerae / Termini Imerese, Sicily, man and landscape in ancient Latium, environmental change and socio-cultural change in the ancient Mediterranean Region, sustainability amongst the ancient Greeks, causes of changing settlement patterns between Archaic and Roman Times in the chora of Camarina, South-Eastern Sicily, the sustainability of ore washing complexes in Thorikos and Souriza, South-Eastern Attica, the dialectical relationship between human impact and natural processes in the Mediterranean Region as well as landscape and cultural processes in the area south-east of Mount Etna, Sicily.weiterlesen