While approaching the relationship of city and nature, urban research claims that temporarily valid understandings of nature are not given. Nature, especially in urban spaces, is hardly ever pristine and self-acting. Rather, the understanding
and the use of Nature is strongly associated to societal preferences, to zeitgeist, and to ever changing frameworks. The article first illustrates and resumes these conjunctions, before it outlines the discussions on the social construction of nature
The aims of this paper are to analyze the principal characteristics of the Wanquan River delta that has developed in a narrow, shallow lagoon, and to determine the effect that the ever-increasing human activities of the area may have on those
The high-water marks from 1784 in most cases show the highest flood levels which were ever measured in the villages and cities along the rivers all over Europe. These high-water marks are historical documents of a climate-disaster which caused
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