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'Recovery of the raised bog starts with the traces of its destruction'
NRC interview with Maurice Paulissen regarding his dissertation on the cultural history of raised bog landscapes.
This summer Maurice received a second PhD at the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University; ' Cultural sponges' is the title of his dissertation. In the interview Maurice tells about his interest in historical and human relationships with the landscape, beyond purely ecological relationships.
In his PhD research, part of the Home Turf project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Maurice Paulissen considers the history of human relationships with raised bogs in the Low Countries from new angles; see more on this here.
The interview in NRC made my Gemma Venhuizen can be found here.
Maurice currently works as a researcher and lecturer at the Open University in Heerlen on an oral history project about the impact of large-scale peat extraction and landscape change in Drenthe.
