The Impact of Historical Geography and Agricultural Land Development Processes on Wetland Restoration Methods Used to Create Ecological Networks: A Comparison of Japan and the Netherlands

In the Osaka area in the 1880s, rice was grown mostly in dry fields in upland areas, and a few paddy fields were situated on the natural wet landforms along the major rivers and streams on the Osaka Plain. As the area developed, dry fields became irrigated, and the lowland fields were filled and converted to urban land uses. For the Osaka city...

Rhine

The territorial system of the Rhine-Meuse- Scheldt Delta, located between the Netherlands and Belgium, is characterised by the omnipresence of water in different environments. From the North Sea coast to the delta estuaries, this territorial system is formed by the confluence of three major rivers from northwest Europe: the Rhine, the Meuse and...

The interaction between port and delta: The case of Kaohsiung