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Environmental History of the Rhine–Meuse Delta (Record no. 505699)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781402082139
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4020-8213-9
Source of number or code doi
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QC902.8-903.2
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code RNPG
Source bicssc
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code SCI026000
Source bisacsh
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code SCI042000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 577.27
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nienhuis, Piet H.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Environmental History of the Rhine–Meuse Delta
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title An ecological story on evolving human–environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Piet H. Nienhuis.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Dordrecht :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer Netherlands,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent XVIII, 640 p.
Other physical details online resource.
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Content type code txt
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337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term computer
Media type code c
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338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term online resource
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File type text file
Encoding format PDF
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 exploitation of land and water, the use of everything nature provided, the development of fisheries and agriculture, changes in biodiversity of higher plants, fish, birds, mammals and invasive exotics. It is the first comprehensive book written in English on the integrated environmental history of the Delta, from prehistoric times up to the present day. It covers the l- acy of human intervention, the inescapable fate of reclaimed, nevertheless subs- ing and sinking polders, ‘bathtubs’ attacked by numerous floods, reclaimed in the Middle Ages and unwittingly exposed to the rising sea level and the increasing amplitude between high and low water in the rivers. The river channels, constricted and regulated between embankments, lost their flood plains, silted up, degraded and incised. Cultivation of raised bog deposits led to oxidation and compacting of peat and clay, resulting in progressive subsidence and flooding; arable land had to be changed into grassland and wetland. For millennia muscular strength and wind and water powers moulded the country into its basic form. From 1800 onwards, acceleration and scaling up by steam power and electricity, and exponential popu- tion growth, resulted in the erection of human structures ‘fixed forever’, and severe pressure on the environment.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environment.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Regional planning.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Urban planning.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ecology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Climate change.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental management.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Geoecology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental geology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Water pollution.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environment.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Climate Change.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental Management.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Geoecology/Natural Processes.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ecology.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Title Springer eBooks
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781402082115
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8213-9
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