This volume contains the proceedings of the workshops held in the framework of the EU “MEDRAP Concerted Action to Support the Elaboration of the Sub-Regional Action Programme to Combat Desertification in the Northern Mediterranean”. During the project, which ran from 2001 until 2003, five workshops were held on:

- Sustainable Use of Soil and Water Resources;
- Identification of Sensitive Areas in the Northern Mediterranean;
- Degradation and Protection of resources in the Northern Mediterranean: Social, Economic and Political Aspects;
- Prevention and mitigation to Combat Desertification in the Northern Mediterranean;
- What Regional Strategies for Combating Desertification in the Northern Mediterranean?

The workshops were attended not only by renown experts on different desertification-related topics but also by stakeholders involved in land planning and management in the five pioneer Annex IV Countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey).