Tool risk reduction measures

100 RISK REDUCTION MEASURES

Land consolidation processes

  • Description
  • Fields of action
  • Synergies
  • Good practice examples
  • References

Land consolidation is a planning process likely to clarify land ownership, reduce fragmentation of agricultural land ownership and to improve rural infrastructure and living conditions. This way it can reintroduce technical measures into collectivized field blocks, and positively influence landscape fragmentation for improving water retention and avoiding uncontrolled hazardous surface runoff. Land consolidation processes should accommodate the likely changes in precipitation and flooding patterns derived from climate change.

Fields of action Buildings,Settlement areas,Farmland,Forests,Watercourses
Synergies may exist between heavy rain risk management measures and other development goals like environmental protection, health care, and economic performance. Harnessing them requires involvement of different actors, enforcement of exchange between you and them and holistic thinking.

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Výzkumný ústav vodohospodářský T. G. Masaryka. v.v.i. / Sabine Scharfe, Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology