Sweetbriar Road Meadows, Norwich Sweetbriar Road Meadows, Norwich Sweetbriar Road Meadows, Norwich is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norwich in Norfolk. Enclosed between Norwich's outer ring road, industrial land and lying in the floodplain of the River Wensum the site acts as a 'green wedge' extending towards the city. The site consists of a series of unimproved wet meadows with permanent water-logging which support many plant species. Three principal grassland communities are present; damp neutral grassland, marshy grassland and areas of tall fen. A number of water-filled dykes bisect the site and attract large numbers of breeding amphibians in the spring
Stand on Zanzibar a technique, entitling it "the Innis mode" as an apparent label. The primary engine of the novel's story is overpopulation and its projected consequences. The title refers to an early twentieth-century claim that the world's population could fit onto the Isle of Wight—which has an area of —if they were all standing upright. Brunner remarked that the growing world population now required a larger island; the 3.5 billion people living in 1968 could stand together on the Isle of Man (area ), while the 7 billion people who he (correctly) projected would be alive in 2010 would need to stand