It has been proven, that green spaces and therefore urban biological diversity are important for a successfully integrated urban development with the aim of a sustainable, attractive city worth living in. At the same time, there are special preconditions for the biological diversity, concerning their characteristics as well as their conservation and development needs. The urban development stock represents concerning those aspects a special challenge. The tools of urban development,- legal, regarding the special urban planning legislation, as well as fiscal, regarding urban development assistance and planning, regarding integrated urban development concepts are building the frame to implement aspects of open space and conservation. The urban development programme (Stadtumbau Ost" and "Stadtumbau West") plays an important role in the development of open spaces. In the administrative agreement: "urban development assistance" for the year 2015, the implementation of green and open spaces had been explicit embedded as a part of all programmes.
The aim of the report for the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation is the evaluation of the potentials and the borders for the integration of goals and actions to support the biological diversity and the conservation in the city as part of the urban development assistance programme east and west.
- Considering the professional and now explicit (funding-) policy relevant anchoring of the subject "green spaces" within the urban renewal, questions about how interests of open space planning, nature conservation in towns and support of the biodiversity can be addressed in terms of the urban development are coming up:
- What kind of framework conditions are offered by the federal- and regional political strategy, planning and conservational regulations, funding programmes and regulations for the integration and implementation of goals and measures to support the biodiversity and conservation of the terms of urban development within the stock?
- What kind of opportunities are offered by the integrated urban development concept considering the interests of nature conservation in towns and the support of the biodiversity?
- How to implement the goals of nature conservation in towns and the support of biodiversity into concrete projects of the urban development?
The processing takes place in several work packages:
- At first, frame building programmes, laws and strategies are examined concerning their management- and incentive potentials to anchor the interest of supporting biodiversity and the nature conservation within urban renewal.
On this basis, interfaces between requirements and approaches of urban development and the implementation of the goals of national biodiversity strategies can be worked out. In particular, a legal evaluation of the nature conservation in towns and the biodiversity in terms of urban development takes place. - To make a state concerning the role and suitability of integrated urban development concepts to take into account the interests of nature conservation in towns and the support of biodiversity, selected concepts will be analysed through document analysis and expert interviews.
- With criteria to anchor the interests of biodiversity and nature conservation, already implemented projects or projects in a concrete planning phase are researched and evaluated concerning their impact on the nature conservation in towns and the support of biodiversity (especially programmes as "Stadtumbau Ost" and "Stadtumbau West").
As result of the project, chances and borders of the planned integration and concrete implementation of goals and measures to support the biodiversity and the nature conservation in terms of urban development of the stock are summarised. References to interfaces and recommendations in term of urban development will be formulated.
