Development of guidelines for environmental management in nature conservation
"Connection of a municipal environmental management with an agenda 21"
Nowadays, spatial planning and particularly landscape planning is not conducted in a comprehensive manner, and lacks particularly in the areas for which it would be most meaningful and desirable.
Only approximately a third of the municipalities develop landscape plans. Thus the question arises as to whether environmental management systems could help municipalities to develop nature conservation objectives on a voluntary basis. The OECOS team has carried out a research project on this issue. A conservation concept was developed for a municipal environmental management system for the use of the Verein Deutscher Naturparke (Association of German Nature Parks). The project was financed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The following topics were in particular approached:
- Evaluation of present methodical standards in the agenda 21 processes and analysis of municipal environmental audits.
- Analysis of technical requirements for conservation within municipal environmental management systems in specific model regions of sustainable development (biosphere reserves, nature parks).
- Development of guidelines for municipal environmental management systems based on nature conservation