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Methodology

As part of the research project, IfaS has developed a zero emission village (Zero-Emission-Villages, acronym ZEV) strategy, which was used as a foundation and then expanded to form an integrated approach for sustainable land management and were further developed alongside the systematic  implementation of practical strategies in two municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate.

To this end:

  • Substance flow analyses were performed in the sub-projects
  • Interactions between individual mass and energy flows and land use as well as their interactions with the urban-rural landscape were examined
  • Strategic approaches and measures to develop sustainable land management were formed while also considering conflict and synergy potentials
  • Using different scenarios whose systematic optimization and achievable results (ecological and socio-economic) were simulated, concrete possibilities of reorganization of regional substance flows were demonstrated through innovative “Next-Practice-Projects”

The research project was divided into sub-projects “Zero emission” (SP 2), “Water” (SP 3), “Waste and secondary raw materials” (SP 4), “Energy” (SP 5), “Land use and landscape management” (SP 6) and “Legal Framework” (SP 7). Through the close coordination between these sub-projects, the development of tools and specific strategies and examples of innovative projects were considered by the Association of Municipalities. The tools can then be adopted by other municipalities and regions for the introduction of zero emission strategies with the goal of sustainable land management.

Target group

The research project was aimed at local decision makers – local governments and agencies, municipal service suppliers such as waste disposal, as well as other companies that are actively involved in the process of reorganization and management of regional material flows. The key actors were able to control the existing regional material flows intelligently and sustainably, and to optimize their service offerings ecologically and attract new business in cooperation with other regional actors.

Partner

Municipality of Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Municipality of Rockenhausen
areal Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft mbH
Institute for Software Systems at the UCB
IZES gGmbH (Institut für ZukunftsEnergieSysteme)
PESCHLA + ROCHMES GmbH
ZUKUC – Center for Environmental Communication at the UCB