The Netherlands' environmental policy for the North Sea and Wadden Sea

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Beukema ◽  
G. P. Hekstra ◽  
C. Venema
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea

Blame the Barbarians

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-82
Author(s):  
Arika Okrent ◽  
Sean O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Old English ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Over Time

This chapter tells the story of how English got to be the weird way it is, which begins with the Germanic languages and the barbarians who spoke them. During the 5th century, an assortment of them poured across the North Sea, from what is today Denmark, the Netherlands, and Northern Germany, and conquered most of England. After about a century of the Germanic tribes taking over and settling in, the Romans returned. This time it was not soldiers but missionaries who arrived. The monks who came to convert the island to Christianity brought their Latin language with them, and they also brought the Latin alphabet. They set about translating religious texts into the language of the people they encountered, a language that by this time had coalesced into something that was Old English. However, there is another group of barbarians to blame: the Vikings. Their language was similar enough to Old English that they could communicate with the Anglo-Saxons without too much difficulty, and over time their own way of speaking mixed into the surrounding language, leaving vocabulary and expressions behind that do not quite fit the rest of the pattern at the old Germanic layer.

Sources and Fate of PCBs in the North Sea: A Review of Available Data

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Klamer ◽  
R. W. P. M. Laane ◽  
J. M. Marquenie
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
North Sea ◽  
German Bight ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
The North ◽  
Total Input ◽  
Seal Population ◽  
The North Sea

From literature data it is calculated that on an annual basis, 11 to 17 tonnes of PCBs enter the North Sea. Largest sources are the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere: together they account for 60-79% of the total input. Sources with greatest impact are the rivers, sewers and sludge. Highest concentrations are found close to the Dutch shore and in the German Bight. The PCB levels result in adverse effects on the seal population in the Wadden Sea. Of the total world PCB production, at least 57% is still in use and their future dispersal into the oceans cannot easily be controlled. If the increase in ocean PCB concentration continues, it may ultimately result in the extinction of fish-eating marine mammals.

Thalassiosiraspecies (Bacillariophyceae, Thalassiosirales) in the North Sea at Helgoland (German Bight) and Sylt (North Frisian Wadden Sea) – a first approach to assessing diversity

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Hoppenrath ◽  
Bank Beszteri ◽  
Gerhard Drebes ◽  
Hannelore Halliger ◽  
Justus E. E. Van Beusekom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
German Bight ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
North Frisian

scholarly journals STABILITY PARAMETERS OF WESTERN SCHELDT ESTUARY

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. De Jong ◽  
F. Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Scheldt Estuary ◽  
Stability Parameters ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The City

The Western Scheldt is a major estuary in the Southern part of The Netherlands and the Northern part of Belgium. It is an important navigational route connecting the city of Antwerp with the North Sea. At the entrance Vlissingen is a major Dutch port.

scholarly journals Historical changes in the benthos of the Wadden Sea around the island of Sylt in the North Sea

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsten Reise ◽  
Elisabeth Herre ◽  
Manfred Sturm
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea

Local and remote response of the North Sea dynamics to morphodynamic changes in the Wadden Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Jacob ◽  
Emil Vassilev Stanev ◽  
Yinglong Joseph Zhang
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Remote Response

Observatory in the Wadden Sea: Nutrient cycling and export to the North Sea

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beck ◽  
M. Grunwald ◽  
C. Kohlmeier ◽  
O. Dellwig ◽  
H.-J. Brumsack
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Cycling ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea
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