Soil

Across Germany, new land-take for human settlement and transport is running at 113 hectares a day – more than ten square metres a second. Some of this is bound to be valuable farmland and natural countryside, lost for ever. The German federal government therefore, in its sustainability strategy, resolved to limit such land-take to 30 hectares per day through to the year 2020. This ambitious target can only be met with the support of all local authorities. Hannover City Administration is active at several levels.

Soil and land-take
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