Nienhuis, Piet H.
Environmental History of the Rhine–Meuse Delta
I. Human Occupation and Management of a Fertile Delta
1. Introduction
2. Prehistory and Early History of the Delta
3. The Delta in the Later Middle Ages (800–1500)
4. Technical Achievements in River Management (1500–1800)
5. River Management after 1800: Complete Regulation and Canalisation
II. The Legacy of Human Intervention
6. Changes in the Relation Between Man and Nature
7. Land Use: Agriculture and Use of Wood
8. River Fisheries Through the Ages
9. Floods and Flood Protection
10. Human Intervention in the SW Delta
11. Human Intervention in Tributaries of the Large Rivers
III. History of Industrial Pollution and its Control
12. Changing Rhine Ecosystems: Pollution and Rehabilitation
13. Changing Meuse Ecosystems: Pollution and Rehabilitation
14. Pollution and Rehabilitation of the Aquatic Environment in the Delta
IV. Ecology of Biota in a Man-Made Landscape: Deterioration and Rehabilitation
15. River-Fish Fauna of the Delta
16. Eelgrass Wax and Wane: A Case Study
17. Exotics and Invasions of Plants and Animals
18. Changes in Biodiversity: Lower Organisms, Vegetation and Flora
19. Changes in Biodiversity: Birds and Mammals and their Use
V. An Ecological Story on Evolving Human-Environmental Relations Coping with Climate Change and Sea-level Rise - A Synthesis
20. The Making of the Delta
21. The Future of the Delta
Keywords: Environment, Environmental Management, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Ecology, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
- Author(s)
- Nienhuis, Piet H.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 658 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402082139