Sustainable cultivated environment

There is a remarkable diversity of landscape forms within the metropolitan area of Hamburg: lands with a long tradition of intensive cultivation but now changing functions (sub-Atlantic heathlands, green marshlands) and modern highly productive agricultural estates. KLIMZUG-NORD needs to develop adaptation strategies, scenarios, techniques, methods and planning concepts in order to safeguard, maintain and further develop the region. Taking evolving climate changes into account valuable cultivated grounds require sustainable protection of the biotope and need to be considered as valuable space for settlements, the economy and as recreational zones.  To secure a lasting, environmentally respectful use of these lands the focus of attention will be on three characteristic cultivated regions: the biosphere reserve of the river meadows in lower Saxony, the heathlands in north-eastern lower Saxony, and the "Alte Land" famous for its orchards.