The document discusses using land use planning, land development, and land banking tools for river restoration projects. It provides examples of integrating land objectives into river restoration projects from various countries. It proposes starting 10 pilot projects in 10 countries that combine river restoration with "land issues" and land development tools. Land development can involve projects to improve agriculture, infrastructure, and environmental functions through purchases, exchanges, and agreements with landowners. Land banking specifically refers to acquiring and managing rural lands for new functions like wetlands or reservoirs.

1. Apply land use planning, land
development and land banking
as tools for River Restoration
Henk Moen, DLG the Netherlands
Wednesday 2011 November 16th,
Ljubljana
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2. DLG the Netherlands
•Government Agency for Land and Water Manag.
•Under Min. Econ. Aff, Agriculture and Innovation
•Work for Ministry, Provinces, Waterboards, Municip.
•Many Rural development and Land development
projects, all over the country : many expertises on
„content‟ and process-/project- management
•Dynamic, revolving Land bank
•International projects, bilateral and european
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3. Content of presentation
•What kind of „land„ issues are relevant in RR plans
•Land use planning, spatial planning
•Land development tools
•Land banking tools
•Some european examples of land development
and land banking projects
•Several examples of RR projects with „land issues‟
•Proposal to start „land‟ pilot projects in at least 10
countries
•Resume
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4. What kind of „Land‟ issues in RR
•Integrated RR „meets‟ and has to involve „land‟
issues as well
•Often GAP between Water- and Land- „world‟…
•Who are the „Land‟ stakeholders, involve them
•Do you need lands for RR ……..?! for re-
meandering, wetlands, technical facilities, dikes,…
•How to achieve that : Expropriate, voluntary
purchase, land exchange, agreements with farmers,
•Other relations : nutrients, water quality, WFD,…
•…………………
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5. Land use planning
•Is equivalent to spatial planning, physical planning
•Exists on several levels, national, regional/county,
municipality
•Needs early contacts with authorities, responsible
for land use planning
•National/County land use plans for major RR plans
•Municipality lands use plans for local RR changes
•Early coordination leads to understanding, support
and decisions
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6. Land development tools (1)
•Land development tools exist in many countries,
in a variety of scope, scale, level…
•Basically this concernes projects, initiated by a
Land Agency and/or farmers and/or Municipality,
with the objectives to improve :
•agricultural structure and parcellation, plus
additional rural infrastructural improvements like
roads, local water measures, recreation facilities,
landscaping, eco-corridors,
•and „change of function‟ to create wetlands,
forestation, waterreservoirs,…
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7. Land development tools (2)
•From simple/small to complex/integrated :
•Simple, small, voluntary, agricultural land
exchange projects
•More integrated, planned, voluntary land
consolidation projects
•Integrated, legal Land development projects
•Land development to facilitate the implementation
of large infrastructural (and a.o. hydro-power-)
projects
•Land banking IN and/or apart from these projects
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8. Land banking
•Concerns systematic purchasing, swapping /
exchanging, selling rural lands by a public or private
organisation for realising landbank objectives:
•Objectives could be : arrange/buy/swap lands for
new functions like additional forestation, water reser
voirs, wetlands, nature development areas, land-
scaping, eco-corridors, roads, water-measures, etc.
•Different types of landbanks ; IN-side land
development project or as separate tool outside land
development projects ;
public and/or private/enterpreneural
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9. Examples of Land development projects in
Lithuania and NL,
several of them with additional water-objectives
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10. 1st LC projects in LITHUANIA
Before land consolidation
After land consolidation
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12. Fitting-in big infrastructure
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13. Examples of RR projects with incorporated land
objectives
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14. TURKEY
•Very active in many many land development
projects
•Partly „land‟ initiated (General Directorate
Agricultural Reform , TRGM)
•Partly „water‟ intiated (big Water Authority,
DSI)
•See examples near Dyabakir, in S. E. Turkey
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17. ROMANIA ; Cats bend
•Romanian/Dutch cooperation project in 2009
•Financed by „Partners for water‟
•In last part of Danube, near Black Sea
•Counterpart : Romanian Ministry of Environment,
a.o.
•Concerned : „Pressure cooker‟ Design
atelier/workshop, including hydrologic modelling ;
with many stakeholders
•“Sketch / Match” methodology of DLG.
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20. UKRAINE ; Irpin River
See Poster presentation of Dr. O Zhovtonog from
Ukraine, on Thursday Nov 16th
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22. “Room for the River” program in NL
•See presentation of Bart Fokkens
•See two local examples in east Netherlands
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25. Proposal for „land‟ pilot projects
•ECRR proposes to start at least 10 RR / „land‟
pilot projects in at least 10 countries
•Who is candidate….
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26. Resume
•Analyse / discuss all relevant „land‟ issues in your
RR project
•Involve „land‟ stakeholders ; do this analysis
together with them
•Consider / Apply land development and/or land
banking tools
•Start pilot projects
•Let us discuss the ECRR questions together
•Do you have more questions / reactions?!...........
•The floor is yours………
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