Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta

Part 1 – Human occupation and management of a fertile Delta
CHAPTER 2 – Prehistory and early history of the Delta
CHAPTER 3 - The Delta in the late middle ages (800 – 1500)
CHAPTER 4 – Technical achievements in river management (1500 – 1800)
CHAPTER 5 – River management after 1800: complete regulation and canalisation
Part 2 – The legacy of human intervention
CHAPTER 6 – Changes in the relation between man and nature
CHAPTER 7 – Land use: agriculture and use of wood
CHAPTER 8 – River fisheries through the ages
CHAPTER 9 – Floods and flood protection
CHAPTER 10 – Human intervention in the SW Delta
CHAPTER 11 – Human intervention in tributaries of the large rivers Part 3 – History of industrial pollution and its control
CHAPTER 12 – Changing Rhine ecosystems: pollution and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 13 – Changing Meuse ecosystems: pollution and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 14 – Pollution and rehabilitation of the aquatic environment in the Delta Part 4 – Ecology of biota in a man-made landscape: deterioration and rehabilitation
CHAPTER 15 – River-fish fauna of the Delta
CHAPTER 16 – Eelgrass wax and wane: a case study
CHAPTER 17 – Exotics and invasions of plants and animals
CHAPTER 18 – Changes in biodiversity: lower organisms, vegetation and flora
CHAPTER 19 - Changes in biodiversity: birds and mammals and their use Part 5 – An ecological story on evolving human - environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise – a synthesis
CHAPTER 20 – The making of the Delta
CHAPTER 21 – The future of the Delta