The relationship between soil and water is at the center of interest now more than ever. Like many other littoral areas around the globe, such as lagoons, wetlands, islands, and their inland areas, the Wadden Sea territories struggle between two opposing forces: permanence and transformation. The war between man and nature is waged on various fronts (i.e. geo-morphological, climatic, ecological environmental, architectural, and landscape) and in urban settlements.@en