Front Cover -- Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Territorial Change Before and After Crisis: A Mediterranean Perspective -- 2 The Future Paths of Urbanization:A Brief Review -- 3 Land Resource Consumption in a Tourism Destination: Long-term Dynamics in Mykonos, Greece -- 4 Beyond Crisis: Demographic Dynamics, Long-term Settlement Patterns, and the Intrinsic Evolution of Local Systems Along a Coastal and Inland Gradient -- 5 Toward a Sustainable Urbanization in Rural Districts? Insights from a Case Study in Central Italy -- 6 Like Father Like Son? An Analysis of Opportunity and Discrimination in Tertiary Education for OECD Countries -- Index -- About the Editor -- Back Cover.