Renatur
Research - Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Renatur Employees
Leire Agirreazkuenaga
Communication and project management Renatur Basque Country
Renatur Details
Peri-urban landscapes are located at peripheral locations of cities, often beyond their administrative boundaries. Build-up areas, such as new housing estates, leisure and industrial areas, communal infrastructure as well as valuable peri-urban open spaces, such as green spaces, brownfields or agricultural fields, can also be found here.Due to increasing urbanisation and investments beyond the city boundaries, these peri-urban open spaces are decreasing. With the decrease, the natural heritage of these open spaces and thus biodiversity, climate and air quality regulation as well as recreation services are lost.The aim of RENATUR project is to draw attention to the importance of peri-urban open spaces and their natural heritage in order to preserve it. For this purpose, model regions were selected, which have a great interest in the promotion and protection of the natural heritage of the peri-urban open spaces in planning practice.Through the exchange of experiences between the model regions, policy instruments, which promote green infrastructure and strengthen biological diversity, are improved. Furthermore, political actors and local citizens are involved in the process at an early stage in order to inform them about the diverse significance of peri-urban open spaces for people and nature.
