Priorytety przyrodnicze i społeczne w rewitalizacji terenów poprzemysłowych kompleksu Emscher Landschaftspark w Niemczech

The Emscher Landscape Park complex, situated at the Emscher River's surroundings in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia's Ruhr coal-basin, was created on strongly demoted post-industrial terrains. Since 90's of 20th century there have been served a purpose to restore them into the nature. The revitalization's processes concerned on two equivalent priorities: scientific and social. Scientific aspect based on renaturation connected with creation of potential conditions to revegetation and plants' development, then initiation of constant natural processes. Fundamental tasks of social aspect based on improving the inhabitants' quality of life: the assurance of contact with nature, the possibility of many forms of rest's realized in public parks, gardens and open landscape. Also based on the regional post-industrial objects' cultural features' preservation connected with it's secular tradition. Both directions of development stay in close relation completing each other.