Integrated rural development (IRD) Waldnaabaue : from nature conservation project to economic and social land development
Perzl, Willi
The Integrated rural development (IRD) Waldnaabaue first of all attends to a sectorally orientated nature conservation project of national significance. Supplementary to ecological tasks, economic objectives are implemented in a socially acceptable way. The Agenda 21 aims at that to the best of its sense. So the nature conservation project's narrow areal and technical boundaries are crossed and the project diversifies to a regional development initiative. In this way, municipal regional authorities, five communities, and the Administrative District of Tirschenreuth attempt to strengthen "the economic and financial power with a lasting effect" in one of the economically most underdeveloped regions of Bavaria. This can be a contribution to support an area as a habitat that is threatened by migration. This present description also wants to show a facet of the changing role of land development administration in Bavaria that more and more adopts an activating function as creative director and network architect.
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