Welcome to the Econat2000 network website

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What is Econat2000?

ECONAT2000 has developped to promote the exchange of best practice and experience for implementing Natura2000 and its interface with economic developments.

Econat2000 aim is to enhance trans-boundary and cross sector cooperation by exploring in greater detail: How the ‘legal’, ‘ecological’ and “economic” concepts in the Habitats and Birds Directives are applied in practical cases?

Who is Econat2000?

The network members are 4 organisations/institutions drawned from both the nature conservation and economic development sectors.
 

  • Rijkswaterstaat , part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management,
  • Natural England, Nature Conservation Agency in England,
  • Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz , NLWKN, part of Ministry of Environment of Lower Saxony,
  • ATEN, Umbrella organisation grouping together protected area management bodies, mandated by the French Ministry in charge of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Land use planning.

More information about Econat2000 ...

ECONAT2000 network evaluation - 2010

After 4 years of activity, ECONAT partners decided to evaluate the achievements of the network. The goal is to evaluate the gains, benefits and possible future directions of the network.

This evaluation was done through 40 interviews performed in the 4 countries.

Download the Evaluation of ECONAT2000 network

Econat2000 peer exchanges

5 Peer exchanges were organized by ECONAT members from March to may 2010.

See the topics discussed and download the presentations from the 2010 peer exchanges page.

This meetings were part of a programme of cross national peer to peer exchanges , on learning from case studies, which were organised in 4 countries since 2008.

Econat2000 seminar

The SEMINAR 2010 took place from the 15th to 17th of June 2010. It was be held in Germany, in Camp Reinsehlen, in the Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation (NNA).

More information and proceedings are available on the seminar presentation page.

The precedent ECONAT seminar was held in Pont à Mousson (FR) on June 2009. Download the proceedings.

The seminar 2009 consisted of two days with presentations covering peer exchange subject areas, plus a site visit with relevant stakeholders in the Regional Natural Park of Lorraine.