Landscapes or Seascapes?: The History of the Coastal Environment in the North Sea Area Reconsidered Tapa blanda - 2013

Turnhout Brepols 2012. Paperback, approx. 450 p., 130 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503540580. This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Landscapes or seascapes? The history of the coastal environment in the North Sea area reconsidered, which took place in Ghent in April 2010. More than 50 years ago, in 1958, a first conference on the evolution of the coastal area of the Low Countries took place in Ghent. It was followed by a second one in 1978 in the same town. Since that last conference a lot of new research has been carried out. New research questions, methodological and technological innovations and an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches significantly altered our comprehension of the historical interaction between man and nature in the extremely variable environment of the coastal plain. Much more than before, coastal development is now explained from a permanent and complex interaction between human and physical evolutions. Moreover the coastal… Leer más

Brepols Publishers, 2013. 1st. paperback. New. 96x20x148.