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Developing and ensuring the environmental compatibility of climate change adaptation measures
- Research in the context of the BMBF joint research project “KLIMZUG Nord" -

 

Developing the adaptation measures to climate change, the environmental compatibility should be also considered early. In the setting of the perennial BMBF joint research project "KLIMZUG Nord", which starts at April 2009, associate professor Dr Karsten Runge and Dr Thomas Wachter of the institute for environmental strategies of LEUPHANA University Lüneburg develop nature conservation forecasts, assessments and model concepts in different sectors.

 

The particular issues are the nature conservation forecast and assessment:

 

  • of the strategic adaptation measures developed in the context of estuary management. Important issues are the environmental assessment of the adaptation measures derived from coastal protection and port industry. Thereupon suggestions will be made to adjust nature protection regulations with regard to climate change, especially the FFH-impact assessment and the strategic impact assessment.

 

  • how public green areas and urban biotopes are impacted by climate change adaptation measures. On that follows the development of suggestions relating to the adjustment of urban nature conservation regulations to climate change, especially the environmental impact assessment, green structure planning and landscape planning. Examples will be worked out for the Landscape axis concept of the Hamburg landscape program.

 

  • how ecological elements of the cultural landscape will be affected by climate change adaptation measures. Amongst others this serves as an exemplary development of planning and assessment tools based on GIS-supported scenarios in the region Ostheide. A special emphasis will be given to the assessment of impairments of nature by different scenarios of the cultivation of energy plants. The aim of the forecast and assessment is the development of suggestions to adjust nature conservation regulations, esp. the environmental impact assessment, the impact regulation under nature protection law and landscape planning according to climate change.

 

With regard to the above topics it is necessary to develop tools to forecast the scope and range of impairments as reliably as possible in order to conduct suitable mitigation measures. Furthermore the regulations for the arrangement of compensation measures have to be developed