Engineered ecologies of the Pearl River Delta

Meeting Theme: Space●Time / Place●DurationSession: People-Environment RelationshipsThe Pearl River Delta (PRD) region is one of the densest urban areas of the world with a complex hydrological system that blurs, stretches, and redefines the traditionally binary relationships between artificial and natural. Engineered processes such as land reclamation, dredging, and aquaculture have altered the natural cycles of erosion and sedimentation, salinity levels, and ultimately the ecological systems of the delta ...published_or_final_versio