Study site description: Crete, Greece

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General Information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
   1. Population density and structure
   2. Education level
   3. Level and source(s) of income main stakeholder groups
   4. Major livelihood supports available from the resource base listed above
   5. Impacts of land degradation on the livelihood of people and what groups are most affected
   6. Major challenges of existing land resource management
   7. Major drivers of main land degradation processes
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users/stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects
8. Bibliography

Education level

Education is critical for promoting and communicating sustainable development and improving the capacity of people to address environment and development issues. It facilitates the achievement of environmental and ethical awareness, values and skills, and effective public participation in decision making. Based on the statistical data of Greece (year 2001), the distribution of education level has as following: (a) without any education 3.3%, primary school level 47.5%, secondary school level 38.4%, and university level 10.8% of total population of Crete.