This chapter describes the measures and resulting details aimed at flora and fauna in public space and adjoining buildings. The measures concern strengthening green networks, improving tree networks and banks of waterways, creating connections and corridors for fauna and possibilities for flora and fauna to settle on facades and roofs. There has recently been a growing interest in microbial life in soil, important as a basis for the food web, which has also suffered from climate change, nitrogen deposition and soil pollution. However, this publication does not include measures aimed at microbial life, but that may be the case in a future edition.
Surprisingly often, roads and railway lines play a role in letting ecological qualities penetrate deeply into large cities (as in the National Ecological Network [Natuurnetwerk Nederland]). Various measures and resulting details also concern strengthening ecological connections. In addition, dozens of measures are aimed at increasing the sometimes limited biodiversity in the city with rows of trees, banks and embankments, green areas and bioswales. Other measures deal with vegetation on building surfaces, such as roofs and facades, adjacent to public space. In the new working method, buildings are viewed as a continuation of public space and as a mountainous landscape that needs to be climbed.
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Netwerk / NE
F-NE1 Natuurvriendelijke waterberging
F-NE2 Faunapassage
F-NE3 Corridor kleine organismen
F-NE4 Natuuroever
Gebouw / GB
F-GB1 Groene wand
F-GB2 Verblijfs- en nestmogelijkheden
F-GB3 Natuurvriendelijk dak
Overview of nature-inclusive design (in the appendix)
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