ISBN: 9789048178087

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change a… Meer...

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise. It offers a combination of in-depth ecology and environmental history, dealing with exploitation of land and water, the use of everything nature provided, the development of fisheries and agriculture, changes in biodiversity of higher plants, fish, birds, mammals and invasive exotics. It is the first comprehensive book written in English on the integrated environmental history of the Delta, from prehistoric times up to the present day. It covers the l- acy of human intervention, the inescapable fate of reclaimed, nevertheless subs- ing and sinking polders, ''bathtubs'' attacked by numerous floods, reclaimed in the Middle Ages and unwittingly exposed to the rising sea level and the increasing amplitude between high and low water in the rivers. The river channels, constricted and regulated between embankments, lost their flood plains, silted up, degraded and incised. Cultivation of raised bog deposits led to oxidation and compacting of peat and clay, resulting in progressive subsidence and flooding; arable land had to be changed into grassland and wetland. For millennia muscular strength and wind and water powers moulded the country into its basic form. From 1800 onwards, acceleration and scaling up by steam power and electricity, and exponential popu- tion growth, resulted in the erection of human structures ''fixed forever'', and severe pressure on the environment. | Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta by P. h. Nienhuis Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Science & Nature > Science > Environmental Science P10117, P.h. Nienhuis<

2010, ISBN: 9048178088

[EAN: 9789048178087], Neubuch, [PU: Springer, Netherlands], Language: English. Brand new Book. This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine… Meer...

[EAN: 9789048178087], Neubuch, [PU: Springer, Netherlands], Language: English. Brand new Book. This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they cope with climate change and sea-level rise. The text offers a combination of in-depth ecology and environmental history. The synthesis presents a blueprint for future management and restoration, from progressive reclamation of land in the past, to adaptation of human needs to the forces of nature. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008., Books<

ISBN: 9789048178087

This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they co… Meer...

This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they cope with climate change and sea-level rise. The text offers a combination of in-depth ecology and environmental history. The synthesis presents a blueprint for future management and restoration, from progressive reclamation of land in the past, to adaptation of human needs to the forces of nature. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Nature & Wildlife>Environmental Issues>Environmental Issues, Springer Netherlands Core >1<

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Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008 Kartoniert / Broschiert Geowissenschaften, Humangeographie, Umweltwissenschaften, Umweltmanagement, Umweltverschmutzung, ecology; Fauna; Flora; Biodiversity; climatechange; Development; ecosystem; ecosystems; environment; vegetation; wetland; waterqualityandwaterpollution; landscape/regionalandurbanplanning, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Springer Netherlands; Springer Netherland]<

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