Environmental Vision 2018: Water Management for Robust Nature Areas in Drenthe

Drenthe province's policy map for robust nature areas, adopted in October 2018. The dataset likely contains geospatial information linking water management and groundwater regimes to specific nature conservation goals. It was published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Model groundwater regimes based on nature conservation targets mentioned in the description.
• Analyze spatial alignment between water management and designated robust nature areas.
• Assess climate resilience of water systems for regional planning.
• Map areas where water management is tailored to specific nature goals.

Strengths

• Based on an official policy document adopted by a provincial government on a specific date (3 October 2018).
• Provides geospatial data in multiple standard formats (WFS, PNG, WMS).
• Released under a public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0), allowing broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely derived from official provincial policy documents and spatial planning data.

Time Range

Policy version from 2018.

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Drenthe province, Netherlands.