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Ilke Marschall (ed.) Matthias Gather (ed.) Ecosystems and Biodiversity Transport an integrative landscape policy? GreenNet Conference: Conference: GreenNet d Environment n Society Agriculture of the 2 Proceedings How to push the implementation of European policy instruments? Green Belt by landscape Berichte des Instituts Verkehr und Raum Band 18 (2014) ISSN 1868-8586 Sources of title page from left above to down right: Klaus Leidorf, Graphic: BUND-Project office Green Belt, EuroNatur, Marion Müller, Stanislava Desnik, Ilke Marschall How to push the implementation of the European Green Belt by landscape policy instruments? Proceedings of the 2nd GreenNet Conference, 19 / 20 of February 2013, Vienna The GreenNet project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE programme co-financed by the ERDF Editors: Ilke Marschall Matthias Gather February 2014 The editors want to thank Guillermo Pablos and Marion Müller for the editorial help concerning the contributions. University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (Fachhochschule Erfurt) Department of Landscape Architecture &Transport and Spatial Planning Institute Altonaer Straße 25 99085 Erfurt, Germany phone: +49 / 361 / 6700 524 fax: +49 / 361 / 6700 757 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] internet: www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/la/. www.verkehr-und-raum.de ISSN 1868-858 CONTENT CONTENT PREFACE............................................................................................................................................................... 3 Keynotes:Introduction&EuropeanLandscapePolicy SPATIAL CONFLICTS TO BE SOLVED ALONG THE GREEN BELT – A FIRST OVERVIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SPATIAL PLANNING Gerlind Weber.......................................................................................................................................................... 4 DOES THERE EXIST A EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE POLICY? WHICH INSTRUMENTS CAN SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT? AN INTRODUCING OVERVIEW Ilke Marschall…………………………………………………............................................................................... 5 AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROSPECT OF THE NEW EU COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY (CAP) - SITUATION, THREATS AND POTENTIALS OF HNV FARMING Rainer Luick……………………………………………………………………………………………….…….. 13 GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Marco Fritz……………………………………………………………………………………………………..... 39 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE (GI) — ENHANCING EUROPES NATURAL CAPITAL……………… 40 PracticeofLandscapepolicyintheEuropeanPartnercountries SUCCESS FACTORS AND CHALLENGES OF THE GERMAN GREEN BELT IN THE GOVERNANCE ASPECT Suk-Kyung Shim ………………………………………………………………………………..……………..... 50 THE ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT Francesco Marangon…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 58 THE TERRITORIAL SYSTEM OF ECOLOGICAL STABILITY (TSES) IN THE PLANNING PRACTICE IN SLOVAKIA Zita Izakoviþová…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 67 NATURA 2000 OVERLAP & ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL FOR PROTECTION OF THE GREEN BELT Petr Roth, Eva Chvojková, Ondrey Volf………………………………………………………………................ 74 ARE EIA AND SEA AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GREEN BELT? Michala Kopeckova, Vlasta Benediktová………………………………………………………………………... 78 DATABASE OF MEASURES FOR THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT WITHIN “GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EUROPE” Hans-Jörg Raderbauer, Brigitte Grießer, Klaudia Heinrich……………………………………………………... 84 LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT – WHAT REALLY MATTERS ARE PEOPLE BEHIND THE LANDSCAPE Maja Simoneti…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 92 1 CONTENT GREENWAYS: A LANDSCAPE PLANNING TOOL FOR RESTORATION OF LINKAGES IN THE LANDSCAPE Attila Toth, Jan Supuka………………………………………………………………………………………...... 93 DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY IN AUSTRIA Irene Engelberger, Horst Leitner ………………………………………………………………………………. 104 CROSSBORDER SPATIAL PLANNING AS A METHOD HOW TO PUSH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT: EXAMPLE OF THE PROJECT BAUM Marek Dinka …………………………………………………………………………………............................ 111 EuropeanGrey&GreenInfrastructure EUROPEAN MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT STRATEGY: WHITE PAPER 2011: INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT AND EUROPEAN ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS, CUMULATIVE LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION? IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY? FUTURE OF ROADS, TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY? Hermann Knoflacher…………………………………………………………………………………………… 120 IENE - INFRA ECO NETWORK EUROPE: A NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPATIBLE WITH TRANSPORT ROUTES AND CORRIDORS Elke Spindler, Anders Sjölund, Marita Böttcher, Lazaros Georgiadis, Carme Rosell, Erland Røsten, Tony Sangwine, Andreas Seiler, Miklós Puky ………………………………………………………………………. 126 IMPLEMENTING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS IN EUROPE: LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Kristijan Civic, Lawrence Jones-Walters………………………………………………………………………. 137 Awarenessraising THE GREEN BELT-PILOT AREA OF BUND IN ALTMARKKREIS SALZWEDEL - A BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLE FOR THE INTERACTION OF LANDSCAPE POLICY INSTRUMENTS AND AWARENESS RISING FOR THE ECOLOGICAL NETWORK Dieter Leupold, Dr. Liana Geidezis, Melanie Kreutz………………………………………………………….. 146 VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES IN THE LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT OF THE GREEN BELT Stella Schmigalle……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 156 CROSS BORDER IDEAS FOR NATURE PROTECTION AND LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION Martin Farthofer………………………………………………………………………………………….…….. 168 FROM AN OUTSTANDING EUROPEAN GREEN BELT TO A UNESCO DESIGNATION: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT AS WORLD HERITAGE SITE Karl Heinz Gaudry, Katharina Diehl, Manuel Oelke, Gunnar Finke, Anita Beblek, Werner Konold……...….. 169 CONNECTING 1st & 2nd SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, FEEDBACK AND INSPIRATION FOR A TRANSITION TO A LIFE SUSTAINING EUROPEAN SOCIETY Marion Müller…………………..……………………………………………………………………………… 179 2 PREFACE PREFACE “How to push the implementation of the European Green Belt by landscape policy instruments?” was the title of the 2ndscientific conference of the Central Europe-project “GreenNet – Promoting the ecological network in the European Green Belt”. The scientific and practical concept of ecological networks was topic of the 1st scientific GreenNet conference. Since 40 years international scientists and practitioners try to establish ecological networks for crosslinking habitats to counteract the trend of biodiversity loss.Despite these efforts even in this extraordinary European green corridor, the European Green Belt, about 50% have to be considered as “gaps”, so even here fragmentation and unsustainable land use do not allow biodiversity. Whereas historically nature conservation activity evolved from the protection of single areas and species to ecological networks, today a more integrative and enlarged landscape policy is demanded. Nowadays concrete protection, management and planning strategies, as e.g. described by the European landscape policy, as well as comprehensive strategies are asked. The recent “Green Infrastructure-Strategy” of the EU can give important impulses to push an active and offensive policy to enhance landscape quality in sense of the EU- biodiversity-strategy for species and people. Landscape policy today has as well to include cultural, social and economic aspects as to address local people and stakeholders. On the whole landscape policy aspects have to be more in integrated into: x general policy agreements and legislation, x sectoral policies as agriculture, road planning, urban planning, water management, tourism, x people’s daily demands on landscape quality. The strengths of the European Green Belt are the natural, cultural, political and human backgrounds and the vision of a connected ecological network which unites nature and people along Europe in peace, humanity and a real sustainable development. In the course of the 2ndGreenNet international conference in Vienna speakers from 8 countries were invited to discuss with about 85 participants landscape policy strategies along the European Green Belt at the BOKU in Vienna in February 2013. In the following proceedings 17 papers and 2 abstracts show approaches on landscape policy in Europe and the six partner countries of the GreenNet-Project. Those concern possibilities, strategies and limits of an integrative landscape policy in general as well as very concrete discussions and results on and of landscape policy instruments practiced in the involved regions. We hope to provide with the following text collection some inspiring insights into the different views on landscape policy as well as concrete impulses and findings to push landscape quality further – not only along the European Green Belt. Ilke Marschall, Matthias Gather, Erfurt 16.12.2013 3 Gerlind Weber SPATIAL CONFLICTS TO BE SOLVED ALONG THE GREEN BELT – A FIRST OVERVIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SPATIAL PLANNING The conference presentation SPATIAL CONFLICTS TO BE SOLVED ALONG THE GREEN BELT – A FIRST OVERVIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SPATIAL PLANNING from Prof. Gerlind Weber can please be found under http://www.greennet-project.eu/sites/default/files/01_weber_spatial_conflicts.pdf. 4 Ilke Marschall DOES THERE EXIST A EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE POLICY? WHICH INSTRUMENTS CAN SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT? AN INTRODUCING OVERVIEW DOES THERE EXIST A EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE POLICY? WHICH INSTRUMENTS CAN SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN GREEN BELT? AN INTRODUCING OVERVIEW Ilke Marschall University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (FHE) Landscape