Människans välbefinnande och hälsa påverkas positivt av grönska och natur, särskilt om den finns nära bostaden och upplevs som lätt att nå. Oavsett kulturell bakgrund upplever vi den på liknade sätt. En stor utmaning för planerare och gestaltare av offentlig miljö är därför att tillgängliggöra naturen i staden och att skapa övergångar från den urbana miljön till naturen så den upplevs nåbar. Syftet med det här arbetet är att skapa ett gestaltningsförslag som visar hur denna utmaning kan hanteras i en del av Linköping. Här möter naturreservatet Tinnerö Eklandskap de urbana, södra stadsdelarna Garnisonsområdet, Berga och Vidingsjö.

Around 85 percent of the total population in Sweden today lives in an urban environment. This means that the nature within the urban areas has come to play an important role for the human well being. At the broader picture, the nature within urban areas is profitable in many ways. It is therefore important for the municipalities around in Sweden to work for sustainability within the urban areas. Linköping adopted an environmental policy, in year 2001, from the delegate of the municipality.

Det finns tydliga bevis på att jorden idag är dominerad av människor(Vitousek et al. 1997). Den biologiskamångfalden i tätortsnära naturområden är beroende av att befintliga habitat fortsätter att existera samt attpopulationskorridorer mellan olika habitatområden bevaras eller återställs. I denna studie undersöks kopplingenmellan biologisk mångfald i tätortsnära naturreservat och dokumentation avsedd att styra förvaltningen av dessaområden. Skillnader i biologisk mångfald, samt skillnader i utformningen av styrdokument mellan naturreservatenNorrköpings ekbackar och Tinnerös Eklandskapundersöktes.

The aim of this work is to analyze if a change in the benthic community can be detected two years after a restoration of a small stream. The samples were taken in a small stream at Tinnerö Eklandskap just south of Linköping. In addition to the restored area, two reference sites upstream and downstream of the restored area were sampled to compare to the restored site. The method used for sampling of benthic fauna in the stream was kick sampling. ASPT, Berger-Parker and Renkonen-indices were used to find out if there was any difference between the reference areas and the restored area.

Old hollow trees of oak contain a large amount of wood mould. Unfortunately, these trees have in the last century been greatly reduced in numbers. It has resulted in that species that depend on these habitats, saproxylic species, have become at risk to decrease in numbers or die out regionally. Previous studies have shown that the volume of wood mould is an important factor for occurrence and population size of saproxylic organisms. The aim of the present study was to examine how the volume of wood mould varies among ash (Fraxinus excelsior), lime (Tilia sp.), maple (Acer platanoides), aspen (Populus tremula) and oak (Quercus robur).

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and show possibilities how a city can grow into the scenery of a oak dominated landscape and how this encounter can add values to the city. The city in focus is Linköping, a city that is approaching one of Sweden?s largest oak dominated cultural landscapes. To this landscape high ecological and cultural values are connected. The recreational values are also of importance especially because of its urban location also because the city is mainly surrounded by flat agricultural land.