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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nienhuis, P.H. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.