multifunctional land use - European Centre for River Restoration

COMBINING FLOOD PREVENTION MEASURES WITH NATURE
DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIENCES IN THE SDF PROJECT
Willie Tiggeloven 1 , Klaus Markgraf Maué 2 , Andreas Ness 3 , Henk Nijland 4
1) Dienst Landelijk Gebied - Regio Oost, P.O.Box 9079, 6800 ED Arnhem, The Netherlands
E-mail: w.p.m.tiggeloven@minlnv.nl
2) NABU Naturschutzstation Kranenburg, Bahnhofstrasse 1, 47559 Kranenburg, Germany
3) IUS Weisser & Ness GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
4) Rijkswaterstaat-Oost Nederland, P.O. Box 9070, 6800 ED Arnhem, The Netherlands
1. Introduction
SDF is a transnational project in which partners from Germany and The Netherlands co-operate in
projects that deal with flood prevention and nature development along the River Rhine.
SDF encompasses twelve pilots with all a practical focus. Six of the pilots are implementation projects,
and six pilots are planning projects. The main objectives of the pilots are reduction of high water floods
and development of sustainable floodplains for multifunctional use e.g. water salvage, agriculture,
nature development and restoration and recreation.
To exchange knowledge and experience between all the partners in a way that partners could actively
apply the acquired knowledge in their own projects, three working groups were established. These
working groups came together twice a year, each time in different pilot areas, so that the exchange of
knowledge did not stay just theoretical but gave opportunities to watch the approach,
the problems and the solutions in the field. Many times external experts were invited to give extra
explanation to specific aspects of the projects
The working group Nature and Environment focus on:
• Possibilities and essential preconditions for sustainable multifunctional land use in new or
redeveloped retention areas and floodplains;
• Combination of flood prevention measures with nature development and nature restoration,
including river restoration;
• Integration of the multifunctional land use concept with nature development strategies and
territorial planning policies;
• Integration of the exploitation of available construction materials like sand, clay and gravel with
measures in the floodplains and new retention areas; the effects on nature development;
• Design and exchange of know how about ecological orientated flooding;
• Benefits of different national and regional eco-pool or eco-account conceptions and policies for
sustainable land use;
• Experiences with the implementation of EU Bird and Habitat directive.
This paper gives a short report about the results of this working group in the last two years since SDF
started.
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