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De toekomst van onze planeet : mens en milieu over 100 jaar
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ISBN: 9020419420 Year: 1990 Publisher: Utrecht ; Antwerpen Veen


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Op de grens van zout en zoet.
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ISBN: 9021604442 Year: 1974 Publisher: Amsterdam Ploegsma


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Als de schepping zucht : verkenning van een technoloog, een cultuur-antropoloog, een socioloog, een filosoof en een theoloog over de relatie tussen mens, milieu en spiritualiteit
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ISBN: 9028912770 Year: 1987 Publisher: Kapellen De Nederlandsche Boekhandel


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Nieuwe natuur : reportages over veranderend landschap
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ISBN: 9026315155 9789026315152 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam Ambo

Plants in the deserts of the Middle East
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ISBN: 3540525726 3642080928 3662044803 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter of my life in a village in the Nile Delta, 65 km north of Cairo. The everyday scenery there was the beautiful green landscape dissected with canals full of running water. All of these were bordered with the huge sycamore, mulberry and acacia trees. The desert was something unknown to me at that time, except for the very basic information given in geography books, which explained that the desert is a place without water or cultiva­ tion. Some of my ideas about the desert came to me from the stories in the history of Islam and the desert lands where Islam originated. My real attraction to the desert developed in the last year of my under­ graduate studies. This was during the field courses in Ecology (Prof. A.M.

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