Management: Prof. Dr Ingo Mose, Dr Peter Schaal

Short description: The project aims to identify typical attitudes, expectations, behavioural patterns and experiences of tourist visitors to the Bourtanger Moor - Bargerveen International Nature Park in the German-Dutch border region. On the basis of partial surveys in the German and Dutch parts of the nature park, comparisons are made between the different visitor groups and any changes over the course of the study period are identified.

Duration: 2016 - 2018

Financing: Bourtanger Moor-Bargerveen International Nature Park

Head: Prof Dr Ingo Mose, Dr Peter Schaal

Employees: Dipl.-Ing. Jan Spiekermann

Brief description: Within the framework of KLEVER, a climate-optimised adaptation concept for inland drainage in the area of the First Drainage Association of Emden is being developed in a cross-sector and cross-institutional cooperation of regional stakeholders. The drainage of the lowland areas along the North Sea coast is a basic prerequisite for their utilisation as settlement and economic areas. Changes in the precipitation and runoff regime due to climate change and the rise in tidal and storm surge water levels in the North Sea and estuaries will make this task much more difficult in the future. Due to its topographical location, the area covered by the First Emden Drainage Association, around a third of which lies below sea level, will be particularly affected by the changing boundary conditions. The regional authorities are therefore faced with the task of dealing with the problem at an early stage and developing viable solutions for the sustainable and integrated adaptation of inland drainage. Against this background, the aim of the project is to identify suitable options for adapting the existing coastal drainage system on the basis of model-based investigations into the specific effects of changing framework conditions (impact analysis) and to develop the necessary implementation strategies (concept development). Due to the great importance of future-proof coastal drainage for almost all existing land uses and functions in the project area and due to the often cross-sectoral dimensions of necessary adaptation efforts, regional stakeholders from the fields of water management, nature conservation, agriculture, tourism, regional and municipal planning are intensively involved as part of a project-accompanying working group.

Duration: 2015 - 2018

Collaborative partner: Jade University of Applied Sciences Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth

Financing: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) as part of the programme "Promotion of measures to adapt to climate change" (DAS programme)