Can policy make a difference? Flanders’ nature outlook. ; Natuurscenario’s in Vlaanderen:kunnen beleidskeuzes het verschil maken?

The EU has missed its 2010 target of halting biodiversity decline. A continuing challenge is to develop realistic strategies to stop this decline.Flanders is densely populated and autonomous socio-economic development dominates the main land-use changes. Question is if nature conservation measures can counteract and which measures would return highest benefit. We evaluated six policy scenarios. The impact of the autonomous socio-economic development is combined with two environmental (abiotic) scenarios. Compared to the ‘Business-as-usual’, the Europe scenario takes all measures necessary to a... Mehr ...