Environmental History of the Rhine–Meuse Delta An ecological story on evolving human–environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Nienhuis, Piet H. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecology.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Water pollution.; Climate Change.; Environmental Management.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

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 exploitati...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Human Occupation and Management of a Fertile Delta
• Prehistory and Early History of the Delta
• The Delta in the Later Middle Ages (800–1500)
• Technical Achievements in River Management (1500–1800)
• River Management after 1800: Complete Regulation and Canalisation
• The Legacy of Human Intervention
• Changes in the Relation Between Man and Nature
• Land Use: Agriculture and Use of Wood
• River Fisheries Through the Ages
• Floods and Flood Protection
• Human Intervention in the SW Delta
• Human Intervention in Tributaries of the Large Rivers
• History of Industrial Pollution and its Control
• Changing Rhine Ecosystems: Pollution and Rehabilitation
• Changing Meuse Ecosystems: Pollution and Rehabilitation
• Pollution and Rehabilitation of the Aquatic Environment in the Delta
• Ecology of Biota in a Man-Made Landscape: Deterioration and Rehabilitation
• River-Fish Fauna of the Delta
• Eelgrass Wax and Wane: A Case Study
• Exotics and Invasions of Plants and Animals
• Changes in Biodiversity: Lower Organisms, Vegetation and Flora
• Changes in Biodiversity: Birds and Mammals and their Use
• An Ecological Story on Evolving Human-Environmental Relations Coping with Climate Change and Sea-level Rise - A Synthesis
• The Making of the Delta
• The Future of the Delta.