Global Climate Change Impacts for the Mediterranean in the 21^st Century: Challenges for Human and Environmental Security

Abstract

There is no generally accepted definition of the Mediterranean nor are there any common criteria of the Mediterranean Sea, its space, region, climate or way of life. It is a ‘sea’ whose shores combine the three continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. There is a consensus that it is a ‘region’ that once has been a centre of the world that was the cradle of several high civilizations and of three monotheistic religions of Jews, Christians and Muslims.