Theme: planning and planning tools
Question:
Which are the participants in a planning
process and what are the main steps in a
planning process?
Theme: planning and planning tools
Question:
Which planning tools do you know? Give
examples for instruments and for plans or
grants related to them.
Theme: planning and planning tools
Question:
Please describe different levels of planning.
Give examples for typical planning contents,
instruments used and the degrees of detail
(scales) on the levels.
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
Case study Lauenburg sewage water plant:
What are main aspects in a planning like this?
(map example 1 + 2)
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
Case study Lauenburg sewage water plan:
Please describe the meaning of predefined
planning standards like the assignment of the
status „Nature Protected Area“ for the sewage
water plant plan.
(map example 2)
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
What is new in EIA compared to other
(„classical“) granting procedures like a plan
approval according to Water Management Act?
Describe the special types of effects discussed
in an EIA.
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
Please discuss the meaning of alternatives and
variants in the framework of an EIA. Why are
alternatives so meaningful?
What meaning does a „zero alternative“ have?
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
What are the criteria used to define the scope
of an EIA? Please discuss methodological and
spatial aspects.
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
What is the meaning of „interactions“ according
to EIA Act? Please give examples and describe
ways to deal with this demand.
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
What does the „precautionary principle“ of an
EIA mean? How can it be implemented?
Theme: environmental impact assessment
Question:
The EIA causes a serious assessment
problem. The EIA need of a trans medial
assessment collides with the assessment rules
of the topical acts. Please describe the
problem. Do you know a solution?
Theme: Strategic environmental assessment
Question:
What are the main common characteristics of
EIA and SEA, what are the main differences?
Please give examples of typical projects,
questions asked and levels of decision.
Theme: Strategic environmental assessment
Question:
What are the main aspects discussed in an EIA
in the framwork of a housing plan? Look at the
example of an industrial area.
(map example 4)
Theme: Strategic environmental assessment
Question:
Theme: landscape planning
Question:
What are the main targets of landscape
planning? What is the relationship between
landscape planning and regional planning /
land use planning?
Theme: landscape planning
Question:
What questions should landscape planning ask
(regarding for example the recent situation or
the available data), and which should be
answered?
Theme: impact regulation
Question:
What are interventions into landscape and
nature? Please give examples and explain
their meaning for landscape and nature.
Theme: impact regulation
Question:
Please explain the terms minimisation,
avoidance, mitigation and replacement of an
intervention. What is the meaning of these
terms for the ecology of an affected
landscape?
Theme: land reallocation
Question:
Why and how are land reallocations carried
out? Please explain this on the basis of the
example given. What are the pros and cons of
land reallocation looking at practical,
economical and ecological consequences.
(map example 5)
Theme: land reallocation
Question:
What measures can be used to avoid or to
mitigate some of the main negative aspects of
a land reallocation (loss of small structures,
straightening of running waters, removal of
hedgerows)?
(map example 5)
Theme: biodiversity
Question:
Please give examples of biodiversity on
different levels of discussion (species level,
landscape elements, etc.)
Theme: biodiversity
Question:
What is the meaning of biodiversity in the light
of ecosystem functions and for the abilioty of
nature to regenerate? (Keywords: genetic
diversity, functional diversity, regeneration of
structures and functions)
Theme: biodiversity
Question:
Please describe examples for the economic
meaning of biodiversity. How can you prove
that biodiversity is economically meaningful?
(keyword monoculture)
Theme: nature protection area
Question:
What are reasons to define nature protection
areas? What are the main contents and
aspects discussed in a granting process?
Theme: nature protection area
Question:
What are main problems of nature protection
areas – at least in Europe? Please look at the
phase of granting an NPA as well as ecological
or spatial aspects
(map example 6)
Theme: nature protection area
Question:
In nature protection areas certain activities are
forbidden in irder to protect certain aspects of
nature. Please discuss this from the
perspective of ecology and from the
perspective of people living there.
(map example 3)
Theme: environmental monitoring
Question:
Please give examples for environmental
reporting. What are the reasons for preparing
and delivering these reports?
Theme: environmental monitoring
Question:
What are the main factors that lead to a good
environmental reporting? How can you reach
your target group? Please give some quality
criteria for a good reporting.
Theme: environmental monitoring
Question:
What steps would you carry out if you had the
obligation to define a monitoring system for a
certain natural good, a certain ecosystem or a
certain species of plant or animal? Please
choose an example and describe some of the
steps of the process.
Theme: environmental monitoring
Question:
A nature protection area has been defined. The
area is meant to protect wetland areas and a
river valley with brooks. Inside of and next to
the area we find farmland. Which main
influences can be foreseen? What measures
do you have to take?
(map example 3)
Theme: environmental monitoring Theme: Natura 2000, biotope network

Question: Question:

A nature protection area has been defined. The What are main problems of nature protection
area is meant to protect wetland areas and a area (in Germany)? Why can a biotope
river valley with brooks. What kind of data do network help to minimise these restrictions?
you collect to assess the ecological value of (map example 7 + 8)
the area and to prepare measures to protect
and to develop the area?
(map example 3)

Theme: Natura 2000, biotope network Theme: Natura 2000, biotope network

Question: Question:

Why do we build up a biotope network? How How can you build up a biotope network?
can nature and landscape profit from the Please describe measures and steps on
network? different scales.
(map example 7 + 8) (map example 7 + 8)

Theme: Natura 2000, biotope network Theme: land reallocation

Question: Question:
Farmers give away 8 to 10 % of their area in
Please explain the terms minimum habitat, the course of a land reallocation. Why? What
minimal population size and related terms are their advantages?
using examples.
(map example 5)
(map example 7 + 8)
Theme: Theme:

Question: Question:

Theme: Theme: guidelines and goals

Question: Question:

What are guidelines and goals and what are

they good for? Please give examples for
guidelines and goals in environmental
planning.

Theme: Theme: guidelines and goals

Question: Question:

Please describe or define the terms guideline,

planning goal, quality goal, standard. It may be
helpful to use examples.