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Background The coastal dunes between Dunkirk in France and Westende in Belgium make up one of the most famous dune systems in continental Europe. The area is characterised by broad sandy beaches, carved foredunes, megaparabolic dunes with large humid dune slacks and low, gently undulating older 'fossil' dunes that were formed between 3 000 BC and 800 AD. ...

Background The project focused on the western branch of the Ijzer estuary in Flanders that was damned in the 14th century creating an area of land known as Ter Yde and a polder (a low-lying tract of land that adjoins an artificial water form that is enclosed by dikes). It also created a stream, the Beek zonder Naam (nameless brook), which flows through a ...