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A new landscape map of The Netherlands: previous history and basic principles
Since the late 19th century numerous Dutch geographers have made landscape typologies of The Netherlands. In 1951 the first landscape map of The Netherlands was published by Hendrik Keuning, depicting eleven landscape types and seven subtypes. Additional maps were made by Bijhouwer (1971), Visscher (1972) and the Working Group of Landscape Typology (1986). All map legends were based on soil types on the first level and cultural landscape characteristics on the second level. This paper describes a new landscape map of The Netherlands that will be published in a handbook called Landscapes of The Netherlands. Compared to former maps several landscapes have been split up into various regional landscape types, such as the sandy landscapes, marine clay landscapes, peat landscapes and river landscapes. Due to new scientific insights into the decay of peat in several regions of the Netherlands the mapping of medieval peat reclamation landscapes is more extensive on the new map.