Workshop land use

Integration of river restoration in land use planning and policies

Main stakeholders in land use

• Organisations with enforcement on national and local level

• Nature conservation sector• Business, enterprises, hydro power• Urban actors, project developers• Land owners, land users (farmers)• Fishery sector• NGO’s

Summary of Problems

• Legal frame work exists; but application is weak, • Many projects are top down approached• Mistrust of stakeholders towards (governmental)

authorities• Extreme fragmentation of land ownership• Lack of appropriate instruments for land acquisition• Compensation for imposed restrictions on land use to

farmers is not existing or very limited• Implementing land use tools are hampered due to lack of

proper registration of legal ownership rights

Some best and worst practices

• Mura river, Slovenia + (transboundary) • Ljubljana river, Slovenia – (resistance of stakeholders)• Irpin river, Ukrain ++ integrated approach (agriculture,

tourism, ecology, sustainable water quality)• Romania, land banking applied as tool for land

acquisition (only for infrastructura lmeasures) 0• Sketch/match designing workshops +• NL: DLG operating as a land bank, providing land

exchanges, improving land structures or outplacement of farms +

Possible Solutions

• Start with small scale, low level land pilot projects• Enlarge compensation payments to farmers in case of

restricted land use• Apply bottom of process from the start, included

awareness raising• Establish well functioning cadastral service, make it up

dated and reliable• Start up a (small scale) land bank• Proper registration of ownership: a precondition for land

banking,land consolidation, other land use tools

Possible solutions (2)

• Use water act as legal tool, but only with proper compensation facilities

• Provide sufficient financial means to start a land bank• Expropriation (sensitive issue)• Establish an authority “to do the job” that is:

– Transparent– Non profit driven– Participatory approach– Integrating different interests and stakeholders– Independent

ECRR-RESTORE

• Prepare some guidelines, offering basic principles how to organise a RR process by implementing land use tools

• RESTORE will gather good practise case studies (NB: call for recommendations and solutions)

• ECRR could transfer this by offering an E-learning course