Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta : An ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise - Nienhuis, P.H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
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.
Keywords: Climate change; Environmental management; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Ecology .; Water pollution; Regional planning; Urban planning; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Ecology; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning