Biosphere Reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ (Lower Saxonian Elbe Valley)

MOTIVATION FOR CHOICE ACCORDING TO HAZARD EXPOSURE AND ASSET VALUE
– Wet and dry cycles, flooding
– The Biosphere Reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ respresents Lower Saxony’s contribution
to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve ‘Flusslandschaft Elbe’ (Elbe River Landscape).

POTENTIAL NATURE-BASED AND HYBRID SOLUTIONS
– Reinforcement of decentralized retention areas in the marshland, unsealing areas and land-use changes, re-activating floodplains, re-naturation of embankments etc.