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Excesses of Dutch Prosperity

The 33,883 square kilometres of land that make up the Netherlands are not nearly enough to share among 17 million people, let alone with nature. Functional infrastructure and green beautification try hard to coexist neatly side by side, but often live in conflict with each other.

Jan Dirk van der Burg and Gijs van den Berg report from the frontline of thesetensions between man and nature.