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Water relations in urban systems: an ecological approach to planning and design

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Landscape Ecology of a Stressed Environment

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Urban and rural areas face growing water problems. Floods, droughts and pollution increase with urbanization and intensified land use. The Dutch, who have struggled against water throughout their history, are now forced to solve the problem of a shortage of good water. In The Netherlands groundwater withdrawal will surpass the yearly recharge in the next decade and national policy is concentrating on water supply and aims to rely more on the river Rhine (Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, 1983). Yet the river Rhine, which has accumulated huge quantities of toxic substances in the delta sediments, may still be considered one of Europe’s main sewers. Thus polluted and eutrophied river water penetrates all parts of the country, threatening not only specific natural vegetation and wildlife but also the functional and aesthetic qualities of rural and urban waters (Barendregt et al. 1993, this volume; Vos and Zonneveld, 1993, this volume).

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  1. Department of Landscape Ecology, Dutch Association for Landscape Ecology and DLO-Institute for Forestry and Nature Research, UK

    Claire C. Vos

  2. Department of Landscape Ecology, DLO-Institute for Forestry and Nature Research, UK

    Paul Opdam

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Tjallingii, S.P. (1993). Water relations in urban systems: an ecological approach to planning and design. In: Vos, C.C., Opdam, P. (eds) Landscape Ecology of a Stressed Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2318-1_13

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