urban-rural linkages important for sustainable development? wolfram güthler, ceo, german...
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Urban-rural linkages important for sustainable development?
Wolfram Güthler, CEO, German Association for Landcare
Brussels 1/23/2009
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Bridging the gap between man and nature
Bilder
• The German Association for Landcare (DVL): umbrella organisation of 145 regional Landcare Associations (LCA's) in Germany
• LCA: societies, founded by landusers, environmentalists and local politicians; acknowledged as non-profit organisation serving the public interest
Sorry: my report is focused on Germany and our experiences
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Urban sprawl
• More than 100 ha of land consumption / day in Germany
• EFRE has pushed this development
• Reduction of land consumption needs a complex strategy (change in tax system and peoples attitudes, other funding, spatial planning)
• Compensation measures can be usefull for rural-urban linkages
New rural areas in cities
• Depopulation of cities in eastern Germany
• Former socialist apartment blocks have been brocken away
• restoration of species rich meadows in Chemnitz (Saxony) by using hay from neighbouring rural areas
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Rural people in the City:Marketing of regional products
Let´s bring urban and rural together
Urban people in the „outback“: Celebration for mountain meadows in the Saxonian „Erzgebirge“
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Regional initiatives in Germany
European Funding – example LEADER
Success storry (bottum-up approach,…)
• Max. 150.000 inhabitants possible (but exceptions)
• to have less than 150.000 inhabitants in a LEADER-process, towns are often excluded
• Result: urban-rural linkages are cut
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• Do urban citizen know a frog, or where the milk comes from etc.?
• Do they have a feeling for that?
• Sustainability needs education (not only for children)
(Not only) a matter of education
Foto: v. Elsen
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(Not only) a matter of education
Foto: v. Elsen
European Funding – example biodiversity
River Lech in Bavaria
• Central biotope network
• City of Augsburg
• Rural-urban linkages and Funding
• EFRD – Axis 3: only in rural areas
• EFRD: Natura 2000 only if it contributes to economic development and / or diversification of rural areas
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European Funding – example WFD
River Ocker in Lower Saxony
• Weir plant in the little river Ocker in the city of Braunschweig
• Serious problem for the implementation of the WDR and the Natura 2000 areas upside the river in rural areas
• No EU-Funding
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Final remark
Foto: v. ElsenEurope has a lot to do