Transition between Transitions: the contemporary energy challenges in the traditional Mediterranean landscape

The contribution aims to demonstrate that the contemporary energy transition is part of a wider transitional process where the landscape plays a key role. The contemporary energy transition is a challenging step of a continuous path that involves the Mediterranean landscape throughout its entire history. The Mediterranean landscape clearly bears the traces of the millennial action of man, who has always attempted to exploit the resources of often inaccessible territories as efficiently as possible. The contribution aims to reconstruct in a synchronic way the main stages that led to the conception of the energy Mediterranean landscape as it is perceived and interpreted today. At the same time, it aims to present in a diachronic way the succession of energy transitions that have modified and constructed this landscape. The ambition is to suggest a new perspective of the Mediterranean landscape as an object that has always been in transition and whose changes today are so urgent and necessary. This change of narratives is essential for assuring a more linear energy transition.