This project investigates for sandy and clay soils how municipal environment plans can best contribute to the water system.
Online Open Day
19 March
Location Velp
31 January
Online Open Day
19 March
Location Velp
31 January
This project investigates for sandy and clay soils how municipal environment plans can best contribute to the water system.
Vallei en Veluwe Water Board wants to literally and figuratively put sustainable water interests on the map with municipalities. They have articulated this in the Blue Environmental Vision (BOVI2050) and the Blue Environmental Programme (BOP) (see figure). However, the integration into municipal environmental visions and plans does not happen automatically.
Research by the Knowledge Centre for Nature and the Environment (KCNL) shows that municipal environmental plans provide very strong starting points for structurally securing water interests. However, municipalities are not well aware of how these starting points can actually be used. The complexity is high. The correct implementation is determined by various landscape types and diverse neighbourhood types. Each subsoil and each type of neighbourhood requires a specific approach.
The project investigates how municipal environmental plans can optimally contribute to the sustainable development of the water system for sandy and clay soils. The sandy soils are found on the Veluwe, and the clay soils in the lower areas around the Nederrijn, the IJssel, and the Randmeren.
The research provides advice with an action perspective that helps to place the natural system as a structuring principle at the centre of municipal environmental policy, with specific insights into the drafting of the environmental plan. These specific insights are linked to one or more types of neighbourhoods, distinguishing between neighbourhoods on sandy soil and on clay soil. Part of the advice includes visualising the functioning of the soil and water system on site, the possibilities and limitations for each type of neighbourhood, and the opportunities for achieving social added value. Based on this, advice is given on the process of developing system-oriented rules for the environmental plan. Instruments that can support the process are also discussed. The elaboration of the rules themselves in a governance-legal sense is not part of the project.
Applied Research Group/researcher: Paul van Eijk and Peter Groenhuijzen
Client and project partners: Vallei en Veluwe Water Board
Duration: February-June 2021
Contact person from Environmental LAB: Frans van den Goorbergh
Involved courses/lecturers: Land and Water Management, Peter Groenhuijzen