An educational project for supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) idea: Simone Janas implementation/organisation: NABU Wiesloch, (nature conservancy org.) finance support: Wiesloch, department of environment
Jan 15, 2016
An educational project for supporting the implementation of the Water Framework
Directive (WFD)
idea: Simone Janasimplementation/organisation: NABU Wiesloch,
(nature conservancy org.) finance support: Wiesloch, department of
environment
Aims of project
to give knowledge to the demands of the WFD
to implement a knowledge base
to communicate this to the public
Landsat-survey, Rhine-Neckar-Area in the south of Heidelberg
rivers: Rhine, Neckarmountain region: Odenwald, woodedplane region: Kraichgau, Upper Rhine valley agriculture tectonical depression close colonisation
Orthofoto Frauenweiler Wiesen M 1:5000S.Janas
• steep and technical constructed riverbanks
• weirs, dams, subterraneous canalisations
• waste in the riverbed, perception as a sewage water cloaca
• not cognizable as natural habitat
Obstacle for development of settlement and traffic
Passability and other morphological demands were unknown
Basic mental settings with starting the project –
percepted situation in the urban districts
• Historical mining industry with silver ore washery
• Extreme heavy metall contamination of the stream sediments
• Straightening of the streams since the middle ages (and even older), drainage systems
• Use of water power (watermills)
• Danger of flooding
Historical use, existing customary laws, local behaviour patterns and the above-mentioned negative consequences influence the perception and behaviour
Historical Situation
source of sedimental load
Actual situation in the rural areas
agriculturally used floodplain
step erosion
sedimental load
Actual situation in the nature protecting areas
bank erosion riparian forest
Primulaelatior
Actual situation in the nature protecting areas
Iris pseudacorus
Actual situation in the nature protecting areas
Bombina variegataSalamandra salamandra
Aims of project
to give knowledge to the demands of the WFD
to implement a knowledge base
to communicate this to the public
target groups
• students
• parents and residents
• administration department
• political persons being in charge of
• transfer knowledge directly
• to arouse public interest
• willingness to work out solutions
• influence their interest and decisions
Contents of learning
•clean water
•habitat water •experiences with water
•water cycle (hydrology)
•flood protection
•stream morphology
• Education for sustainable development in cooperation with different schools and preschools
Methods - Learning
• To experience nature as a rich treasure chest
• To remove fear of Nature
Basic educational principles -
ecological• To experience the stream as a unic and formative part of the landscape
• To associate the experience of Nature with happiness
Basic educational principles-social competences
• To enjoy the adventure
• To research in groups
• To trust in the own work and activities
• To prepare children for complex knowledge understanding and the need for active participation
To enable wide-ranging experiences outside of the home and school environment
Basic educational principles -beeing part of the society/partizipation
target groups
influence their interest and decisions
students
parents and residents
transfer knowledge
to arouse public interest
administration department
willingness to work out solutions
political persons being in charge of
Methods - public relation work
• Immediant and current publications of the activities taking place in the local newspapers
• Publications in special journals
target groups
influence their interest and decisions
students
parents and residents
transfer knowledge
to arouse public interest
administration department
willingness to work out solutions
political persons being in charge of
Methods - public relation work
• Organisation of exhibitions of great importance
• High decorated awards
Sequence of action 2001: start of the project with
working out a help for teachers
2002: awarded with the „AGENDA 21-Förderpreis des Landes Baden-Würtemberg in 2002“
2004: exhibition with results of a several day´s duration lab completed with informations of the administration and fire departement
2006: preschool enlargement; renaming as „educational project – waters“; start of the curricullum „water“ with Sibylla-Merian-Schule, Wiesloch
since 2001 more than 1500 times children had contact to this project
In summertime almost weekly publications
Very slowly progress in the beginning
Difficulties and handling
Patronage of the administation department
Assumption of costs by the department of environment
Coming in conformity with requirements of the course of instructions (syllabus)
Arranging the organisational matters
Realize an effective operation
Mental modification
Impressions
Accumulated demand – students loking forward to the projekt
Themes about „water“ are interesting
Cognition of the importance of water-themes and management on the part of the administration departement
Work out a curriclum with a whole basic school
Periodical labs with the third class level
Waterthemes are sometimes in local newspaper
Statement in „Nachhaltigkeitsbericht der Stadt Wiesloch“
Demands of the WFD - structural shift
Impressions - changes?
Cleaning of the boundary; sometimes with bad letters to the editor because of waste in the stream
a fish-die-off was discussed in the papers
Administration gained access to the the stream very close to the inner city
Plans about urban renaturalisation and floodprotection are in work
• waste in the riverbed, perception as a sewage water cloaca
• not cognizable as natural habitat
• steep and technical constructed riverbanks
Demands of the WFD - structural shift
Impressions - changes?
There are plans to destroy weirs of mills
There are plans to construct heeps of dams in the floodplain (flood protection management) - Conflict between renaturalisation and technical flood protection management
One was opened with a great succes;
A big one causes massive technical flood protection
• weirs
• dams
• subterraneous canalisations
Position & Limits
For some reasons (financial matter & social peace) it is not part of the public agenda to give detailed knowledge to the demands of the WFD
The project implement a knowledge base to students, teachers and their parentsArouse public interest to stream connected themes due to the newspapers support
To coact and work out solutions with the administration departement (partizipation) depends on the intention of the administration and (different) interests.
Influence the interest and decisions of political persons being in charge is not evaluable.
Tasks
For some reasons (financial matter & social peace) it is not part of the public agenda to give detailed knowledge to the demands of the WFD
Bottom up
To coact and work out solutions with the administration departement depends on the aims and (different) interests.
Influence interest and decisions of political persons being in charge is not evaluable.