Institute for Infrastructure, Environment and Innovation
IMI is an independent non-profit organisation with locations in Brussels, Hamburg and Amsterdam, aiming to demonstrate that the development of infrastructure can be reconciled with nature protection and environmental goals.
Workshop
9/10th of March 2009: Strategic and operational aspects of advanced nature
management in North European estuaries
main topics
-Integrated Management Plans
as an innovative approach to balance economic development and ecological conservation
- Meeting Natura 2000 goals with Accompanying Preventive Measures and Natural Asset Creation
- Habitat Banking as compensation
tool under the Birds -and Habitats Directive- an ongoing controversial
discussion about ecological potential and legal pitfalls
- The role of Temporary Nature in
current and future economic development facing the implementation of the
Natura 2000 Directives.
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Mr. Marten Wiersma, Economic Affairs
Executive of the
Province of
Zealand opened a
kick-off at the Canadian Embassy in Brussels of OKEANOS, a new international
Co-operation network on Tidal and wave Energy and other innovative forms of
energy generation from water sources.
This network includes Dutch, Canadian,
French and British co-operation as well as participation from European and Canadian
industry.
The Regional Government of Zealand in The Netherlands is seeing the development
of ways to generate energy from water by tidal, wave and osmosis as a important
new source of renewable energy and wants to encourage innovation by facilitating
an international co-operation on this matter, The meeting was organized in
co-operation between the Government of Zeeland in Middelburg, The Netherlands
and the Institute of Infrastructure, Environment and Innovation (IMI).
