The Strasbourg Grandeur Nature Plan

Strategy, plan or policy development

The general aim of the plan is to focus on citizens' involvement in greening the city (Ref. 3). This plan of action for the maintenance and strengthening of nature has a double ambition: 1. Responding to the unavoidable aspects of its urban greenery, such as inventory work, protection of natural heritage, environmental education, sustainable land management and new projects. 2. To highlight the strengths and specificities of Strasbourg: the desire to associate the themes of a "natural city" and "nourishing city", and the broad participation of citizen appropriated from an early age, ally biodiversity and solidarity, and to finally highlight the important place that water and trees occupy in the city (Ref. 2). The goals listed were: - knowledge sharing, - natural/agricultural protection, - providing effective guidance, - maintaining local species, - managing and developing natural areas, - innovate, - provide sustainable land management, (Ref. 3) - planting new vegetation (e.g. trees, shrubs) (Ref. 4). The plan is a response to the Urban Community of Strasbourg's Green and Blue Frame (TVB) from 2011 that combines preservation biodiversity and regional planning in the city's broad attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change (although mitigation goals are not specified). (Ref. 4, 9)

The work mobilised extensively around the construction plan "Strasbourg Grandeur Nature" which went from spring to autumn 2015. This work firstly mobilised stakeholders and was accompanied by a research department that assisted citywide project owners in their ecological plans revolving around the city's natural green spaces. The second phase was devoted to working on community feedback in workshops and consultations, while the third phase focused on identifying and working with project leaders around the city (Ref. 7). The project is due to run from 2016 to 2020 (Ref. 1). "Naturalist inventories on natural spaces protected As part of the application of management plans in protected areas, monitoring of species and environments is realised. Its objectives are to improve knowledge naturalist and assess management methods. A part of these inventories is entrusted to associations naturalists, through conventions. > Naturalist inventories on natural spaces ordinary It is about developing real knowledge ordinary biodiversity indicators at the local level and to be able to appreciate their evolution over time. AT today, a specialized gardener is mobilized part-time for monitoring the impacts of differentiated management. Inventories are carried out within the framework of projects development. Strengthening the naturalist expertise unit could help ensure this mission. Support from volunteers associations, but also interns or services civics can be considered in the context of the Atlas of Communal biodiversity. > Inventory of sanctuary urban nature areas and / or protected It is necessary to identify and map the areas of nature in urban sites, little or not accessible to the public, which can constitute refuges for fauna and flora. It also involves a census of wealth floristics and faunistics and a follow-up of its evolution" (Ref. 4). Rainwater collection bins and compost have been put in place in gardens (Ref. 7).

• Citizens or community groups