Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 6
New Vision of the Role of Land
Reclamation Systems in Nature Protection
and Water Management
Wies
aw Dembek
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Abstract The chapter is devoted to selected problems that appear between nature
protection and some aspects of water management. Basic paradigms of nature
protection and the reasons why they are not understood in society are presented.
The role of land reclamation in natural environment is described with special
attention to its positive aspects. Examples of con
icts between land reclamation and
nature protection and chances of their solution are presented. The importance is
analysed of small retention and broadly understood reclamation activities for
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ood
control. Exemplary attempts are given of implementing some activities to hamper
unproductive water out
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ow from reclamation networks to the Polish model of
common agricultural policy.
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Keywords Nature protection
Land reclamation
Flood control
Con
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icts
Areas of cooperation
6.1 Introduction, Aim of the Study
The study is aimed at analysing selected problems that appear in the relations
between nature protection and land reclamation. The contact zone between the two
is a traditional area of con
icts and polemics. Therefore, it is worth thinking for a
moment of the sense of the notion
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and of priorities associated
with this type of activity. Nature protection is not a scienti
“
nature protection
”
c discipline; it is rather a
skill based on various
fields and disciplines of knowledge. It is mainly based on
ecology since it very often deals with maintaining proper relationships between the
elements of natural environment which is the domain of that science. Most often
reason of misunderstanding is forgetting that both nature protection and ecology are
not guided by anthropocentric philosophy and tradition; hence, they do not treat
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