Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 3
Can Natura 2000 Sites Benefit from River
Basin Management Planning Under
a Changing Climate? Lessons
from Germany
Lars Stratmann and Juliane Albrecht
Abstract Goals for nature conservation and development are set for several rivers
and lakes which are situated within protected areas. Concurrently these areas have
to meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive. Between the goals of
both scopes there are often synergies but partially con
icts. In addition, climate
change, which touches both water management and nature conservation at the same
time, has to be taken into account during the river basin management planning, too.
Against this background it is discussed in consideration of climate change, how the
goals of nature conservation and of the Water Framework Directive can be achieved
in such a way that con
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icts are avoided to a large extent and synergies used. The
following discussion and its results are based on an evaluation of the river basin
management plans and programmes of measures in the ten river catchment areas of
Germany. Altogether, it can be noticed that potential synergies are already put to
good use. However, there are even more unused possibilities for the improvement
of the interplay of nature conservation and Water Framework Directive as well as
for the consideration of climate change effects.
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Keywords Water
framework directive
Nature conservation
River basin
management plan
Programme of measures
Climate change
3.1 Introduction
At present, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is implemented in the Member
States of Europe. In this context, programmes of measures and river basin man-
agement plans had to be drawn up by 2009 for the attainment of a good water
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