5. The draining of the lakes in the Netherlands (18th-19th centuries)

Reclaiming and the development of the agricultural economy It has frequently been pointed out that there is a connection between the fluctuations of the agricultural economy and the extent of the reclaiming of lakes in the history of the Netherlands (Cools 1984: 84, 97, 168; Slicher van Bath 1977: 220, 234, 253). In my opinion some discretion is needed when using this generalization. In the first place one can call to mind that in an allocation model for agricultural land-use the so-called lo.