Publications

Here you find all available publications on the topics:


Material on the overall project and competitions

Here you find all material (flyer, brochure etc.) about the overall project available in English.  Most of the material for the competitions (questionnaire, competition guidelines) is only published in the languages of the competition countries. Please find them on the national competition pages (click flag on the left).

Flyer_Capitals-of-Biodiversity_small.pdf

The English flyer outlining the aims and strategies of the project.

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Training on local biodiversity

Within the project, training workshops on action for local biodiversity will be implemented in the five competition countries.

The concepts for these workshops will be available here in early 2010 (English). For workshop material (and documentations) in one of the languages of the competition countries, please go to the national competition pages (click flag on the left).


Monitoring of urban biodiversity

These undicators are used in the monitoring chapters of the questionnaires. Please go to the national competition pages (click flag on the left) to find them translated to the respective languages and to know, which of the indicators are used in the questionnaires of the competition countries.

Indicators_on_urban_biodiversity_-_LIST_-_European_Capitals_of_Biodiversity.pdf

List of indicators which are used in the questionnaires of the competitions.

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Indicators_for_urban_biodiversity_-_GUIDELINES_-_European_Capitals_of_Biodiversity.pdf

Guidelines to the indicators

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Best practice

Model projects from all competition countries will be compiled in brochures in autumn 2010 and 2011 in the languages of the competition countries (download on the national competition pages: click flag on the left). An English version will be available here.

We invite you to send us your material on best practice projects on urban biodiversity to publish it on this page.

Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) in the City of Heidelberg, German Capital of Nature Protection in 2007 © J. Alberti
Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) in the City of Heidelberg, German Capital of Nature Protection in 2007 © J. Alberti
Kids can discover nature in a near-natural park in Münster © Stadt Münster
Kids can discover nature in a near-natural park in Münster © Stadt Münster
Green-winged orchis (Orchis morio) © REC Slovakia
Green-winged orchis (Orchis morio) © REC Slovakia
Demolition of the canalized streambed © Office for Environmental Protection, Energy and Mobility, City of Offenbach
Demolition of the canalized streambed © Office for Environmental Protection, Energy and Mobility, City of Offenbach
Native Hungarian Grey Cattle © Balaton Uplands National Park Directorate
Native Hungarian Grey Cattle © Balaton Uplands National Park Directorate