The ecological land management of the Ruhr Regional Association RVR : a new path to the preservation of open spaces
Bottmeyer, Manfred et al.
In order to encounter the consumption of nature and landscape and hence also the decline in the number of species in Germany, the impact mitigation provisions of the Federal Nature Conservation Act were created in the former Federal Republic of Germany in 1976. According to the German Federal Nature Conservation Act, measures must be taken for ecological compensation in all places where nature and landscape are jeopardized by the construction of residential, commercial and traffic areas, for example through the elimination of habitats and soil-sealing. For any intervention in the natural environment, the polluter is responsible for the planning and implementation of the appropriate measures of compensation. In 1998, the Rules of Intervention were integrated into the German Baugesetzbuch (Town and Country Planning Code) to serve as a planning instrument. This amendment to the law enabled the temporal and spatial decoupling of impact and compensation, in other words, compensation measures can be implemented spatially separate from the site of impact. Following the amendment of the Landscape Act of North Rhine-Westphalia 2005, compensation measures in forests are possible in particular with interventions in forests and deteriorations of forest-related functions.
Event: FIG Working Week 2012 : Territory, environment, and cultural heritage
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