Description

Many interests are involved in the battle over the Hedwigepolder, which are not explicitly

and in which the Hedwigepolder itself plays a secondary role. The factors are the port of Antwerp,

the nature organisations, the authorities, and in the background the owner and the local population.

In fact, what is at stake is the future of the Westerschelde and the polders along that estuary.

The prey-predator relationship of land and sea is disturbed in favour of the sea by human interventions

from narrow interests. This has happened before in the 10th, in the 13th /14th and the 16th/17th centuries.

We still have not learnt any lessons from it and there is no focus on (long-term) salinisation, among other things.

Speaker(s)

Wil Lases

Location

Wantijpaviljoen, Dordrecht

Wantijpark 1, 3312 AV Dordrecht.

Organiser

Drechtsteden Circle

Name and contact details for information

Ron Dolstra, email: vanheeren054@cs.com

Register via

Ron Dolstra

vanheeren054@cs.com