The revised guide 'Green-Blue Network 2.0' offers concrete tools to work towards 10% green-blue network in rural areas. The guide stems from the program Beautiful Netherlands. In this program, landscape quality plays a central role within major spatial challenges such as climate adaptation, water management, and nature restoration.
National parks can also make good use of the practical guide. It includes, for example, seventeen elaborated landscape types, concrete practical examples, and a catalog of building blocks. Additionally, the guide contains a step-by-step plan and preconditions.
National Parks
With the information, national parks can better connect nature areas with each other and the surrounding landscape. For example, by restoring or creating hedgerows, flower-rich edges, streams, and wet zones. This creates stronger ecological connections, provides more living space for plants and animals, and reduces fragmentation. At the same time, it aids in climate adaptation. Water is retained better during dry periods and better absorbed during peak showers. The guide can also support parks in collaboration with farmers and municipalities, so that nature, agriculture, and recreation strengthen each other. This way, national parks become not only more robust and biodiverse but also more attractive and future-proof.
More Information
The revised guide Green-Blue Network can be found on the knowledge platform on this website.