Efficient Practices of Land Use Management Integrating Water Resources Protection and Non-structural Flood Mitigation Experiences

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Several territorial challenges common to CE countries ask for adapted and target-oriented land-use activities concerning protection of water resources, balancing conflicts of land-use pressure on water and adaptation to climate change issues despite uncertain prognoses. A function-oriented and land use based spatial management for drinking water protection is strongly required. But best practices already elaborated haven’t yet been successfully applied. The main objective of PROLINE-CE is improved protection of drinking water resources as well as protection against floods/droughts in an integrated land use management approach, in order to facilitate implementation of existing strategies and management plans, as well as to capitalize and transform them into reality, towards improved organisational structures and effectiveness of land-use management. PROLINE-CE will encompass efficient implementation of innovative best practices of land use and water protection in pilot actions, aiming at --transnational levelling of fundamental visions, --elaboration of policy support and --implementation support at operational level. This will be demonstrated in “GOWARE” tool (Guide towards Optimal WAter REgime). This will be supported by different capacity building efforts tailored to the defined target groups. Besides intensive stakeholder engagement and feedback loops on national and transnational level, visibility of actions will be enhanced by a Declaration Charta, in order to bundle efforts towards efficiently and effectively implemented management practices targeting drinking water protection. The partnership is composed by both policy support and policy implementation representatives and thus management options for the challenging project topics will be applicable. Hence, PROLINE-CE provides cost efficient management methods and ensures dissemination regarding land use and drinking water protection management on a macroregional scale all over CE programme area.

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