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The Anthropocene in the aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark Schelde Delta area: geological history, human resilience and future landscape management
Kluiving, S.; Waterman, R. (2023). The Anthropocene in the aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark Schelde Delta area: geological history, human resilience and future landscape management. Land 12(5): 990. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12050990
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Author keywords
    Anthropocene; geology; archaeology; land- and waterscape; sustainable landscape management scenarios; AquaPuncture; Nature Futures Framework; UNESCO Geopark

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  • Kluiving, S.
  • Waterman, R.

Abstract
    In north-western Europe, the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt rivers have created a large river delta over the past 3 million years. Geological phenomena in the Scheldt region in north-western Belgium and in the southern Netherlands testify from a highly dynamic landscape, showing a range from very old (50 MY) to very young (recent) geological processes. The great diversity in geological processes and resulting landscapes is unprecedented on a global scale and has had its impact on the region’s cultural and economic history, shaping today’s reality in the global polycrisis. However, the area is usually observed by people as a flat and featureless type of terrain, although sometimes, unexpected elevation differences and sharp contrasts in landscapes occur alternating with omnipresent waterways. Therefore, here, the seven most conspicuous landforms are reviewed and presented in conjunction with the geological history of the area, including the typical lowland theme of the human battle against water. This study aims to (a) reconstruct the Tertiary and Quaternary to Holocene Dutch–Flemish Schelde Delta history, (b) review a cultural history that evolves into the present of the Anthropocene, and (c) project the desired future for sustainable landscapes in the aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark Schelde Delta between plural landscape management scenarios of Revitalised Land- and Waterscape and Improved Biodiversity.

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