1. The Maltese Islands: climate, vegetation and landscape

   • Patrick J. Schembri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

2. Editorial

   • E. W. Anderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 100

3. Quaternary deposits in the Maltese Islands: a microcosm of environmental change in Mediterranean lands

   • Chris O. Hunt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 109

4. The wied: a representative Mediterranean landform

   • Ewan W. Anderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 114

5. The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean

   • P. J. Atkins
   • M. Gastoni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 136

6. Settlement Patterns in the Maltese Islands: from Early Colonization to pre-Independence

   • Louis. F. Cassar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 144

7. ‘We promise you a warm welcome’: tourism to Malta since the 1960s

   • Douglas Grant Lockhart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 152

8. Malta's external security

   • Dominic Fenech

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 163

9. Malta: macropolitical threats

   • Ian R. Baggett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 171

10. Coastal state sovereignty in the Mediterranean sea: the case of Malta

    • Geraldn H. Blake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 180

11. Water scarcity in Malta

    • N. Birdi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 191