Development of guidlines of environmental management in nature conservation
"Connection of a municipal environmental management and agenda 21"
Today, spatial planning and particularly landscape planning do not get full-coverage.
Only approximately a third of the municipalities develop landscape plans. It is a question, whether environmental management systems could help municipalities to develop nature conservation objectives on a voluntary basis. The OECOS team has worked 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 Natureparks). The project was financed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The following topics were processed in particular:
- 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