By P.H. Nienhuis
This exact textual content offers the environmental heritage of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. it really is an ecological tale of evolving human-environmental kinfolk and the way they take care of weather swap and sea-level upward thrust. The textual content bargains a mixture of in-depth ecology and environmental historical past. The synthesis offers a blueprint for destiny administration and recovery, from revolutionary reclamation of land some time past, to edition of human must the forces of nature.
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