Head, John W.2018-06-192018-06-192018John W. Head, A Mediterranean Biome Eco-State: Reorienting sovereignty in the Mediterranean Basin and its four global correlatives, 10 MEDITERRANEAN REVIEW 112-144 (2018)https://hdl.handle.net/1808/26532The Mediterranean Basin is the largest of five regions around the world that constitute, in aggregate, the Mediterranean Woodlands, Forests, and Scrub.Biome under a commonly-used global ecological classification system. All of.these regions – the Mediterranean Basin itself as well as the similar ecological.regions in California, Chile, South Africa, and Australia – face severe ecological.degradation, largely because of agricultural practices. Traditional nation-states cannot address this ecological crisis adequately. A new form of political organization – an “Eco-State” – can and should be established for this purpose. Doing so will require a reorientation of the centuries-old notion of sovereignty, a reorientation that is already underway in some respects. The Mediterranean.Biome Eco-State would build on this momentum. It would hold binding.authority over all ecological and agricultural aspects of the territories falling.within its boundaries, thus exercising a form of blended sovereignty that it.would share with other authorities. This essay summarizes some key aspects of.such a new Mediterranean Biome Eco-State.MediterraneanSovereigntyEnvironmentAgricultureInternational lawEco-stateArticleopenAccess