Rottumerplaat is een van de negen onbewoonde eilanden of zandplaten in de Waddenzee. Het eiland is niet toegankelijk voor publiek en wordt alleen in het zomerseizoen bewaakt door twee vogelwachters. In 2019 waren Aaldrik Pot en Nicolette Branderhorst de gelukkigen. Met het vier maanden durende verblijf op Rottumerplaat ging een langgekoesterde wens in vervulling. Hoe is het om langere tijd op een afgelegen plek, omringd door zee, zand en vogels, te wonen en werken?

Hun dagelijkse werk op Rott...

Now in its fourth edition, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, provides comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics. All chapters have been fully updated in light of new developments and changes in the subject, and provide a balance of theory, applications and examples to give a rigorous grounding in the economic analysis of the resource and environmental issues that are increasingly prominent policy concerns. This text...

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Wild Fictions is a collection of essays written over the past 25 years or so and published in various journals and periodicals.

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A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.