Urban and rural environment of Gozo

Abstract

The relationship between man and his environment is always changing, it is essentially dynamic and never static. Man is capable of intervening with the shaping of his environment to such an extent, that eventually this environment may have an adverse influence on man’s way of life. This factor is very often overlooked. Primitive man being part of the natural environment, fitted into it, with very little effect on his surrounding. Later on, in his efforts to enrich his way of life, he began to influence his surrounding by agricultural landscape and by punctuating the landscape with his abode.