Usage examples (19)

• They are diminishing because of the dams and the canalisation of the Missisippi.
• Many of our rivers have been changed forever by canalisation, by the encroachment of roads, by invasion by alien vegetation.
• The canalisation of rivers, dams and dykes, combined with urbanisation, deforestation and wetland drainage, dramatically increased the destructive potential of floods,...
• If we suppose that some of the ˜pegs™ in Waddington's model are environmental factors, rather than genetic loci, then we can define separate notions of ˜environmental...