LUMAT Final Booklet

Cooperation in land management for more livable places MAY 2016 LUMAT PROJECT JULY 2019 www.interreg-central.eu/LUMAT.html BOOKLET IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE LAND USE IN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL URBAN AREAS Editors INDEX pp.4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LINKS Foundation (Matteo Tabasso, Cristina Marietta, Giulia Melis) The booklet collects the contributions of the project partners Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU) | Poland ......................... LEAD PARTNER Ruda Śląska City Hall | Poland Saxon State Office for Environment, Agricolture and Geology | Germany..... WORK PACKAGE 2 LEADER pp.5 INTRODUCTION LINKS Foundation | Italy ............................................................... COMMUNICATION LEADER Metropolitan City of Turin | Italy Energy Center Lipizzanerheimat LDT | Austria ..................................... WORK PACKAGE 3 LEADER Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STUBA) | Slovak Republic ...... WORK PACKAGE 1 LEADER City of Trnava | Slovak Republic Institute for Sustainable Development of Settlements (IURS) | Czech Republic pp.6 THE LUMAT PROJECT Moravia-Silesian Investment and Developement, A.S. (MSID) | Czech Republic 1 Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) | Slovenia Ministry f the Environment and Spatial Planning | Slovenia City of Kranj | Slovenia Layout and Graphic design 2 pp.14 METHODOLOGY LINKS Foundation Printing Edizioni Langhe Roero Monferrato - Casa Editrice FROM CONCEPT pp.36 TO ACTION Photo Credit 3 In the cover and chapter pages, photos from the LUMAT photocontest. Front Cover: Lucio Beltrami | Dotted line Chapter 1: Matteo Tabasso | Memories PILOT ACTIONS AND Chapter 2: Miroslav Beňák | “X” Roof in the train depot pp.96 INVESTMENTS Chapter 3: Miroslav Beňák | Windows in the main hall 4 Chapter 4: Marta Fudala | Towards urban green areas Chapter 5: Marta Fudala | Focused on citizenz Chapter 6: Lucio Beltrami | Peekaboo 5 pp.116 PHOTOCONTEST ISBN 978-88-941765-5-1 This work is published in the framework of the INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE project “LUMAT - Implementation of Sustainable Land Use in Integrated Environmental Management of Functional Urban Areas” (Project No: CE89 LUMAT) 6 pp.126 CONCLUSIONS The sole responsibility for the content of the publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. 4 | LUMAT PROJECT LUMAT PROJECT | 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION The LUMAT project objective is the more liveable places) starting with Central European urban regions are to make them more liveable places. implementation of Sustainable Land the pilots in all regions (successful challenged by urban sprawl and Use and pilot projects in Integrated brownfield redevelopment, green suburbanization as well as by the More details of the presented results and Environmental Management in 7 infrastructure, sustainable land use on reluctance of investors to take on other project products are available on Central European Functional Urban contaminated land). urban brownfield locations. Poorly the project web: www.lumatproject.eu. Areas. integrated and unsystematic land The LUMAT project relies on the use, development policies and The LUMAT partnership of cities and interplay between strategies and environmental management regulations Dr. Anna Starzewska-Sikorska - IETU regions, environmental agencies and instruments beyond existing practice, increase land–related conflicts and LUMAT project Coordinator research institutions develop integrated and on a suitably comprehensive handicap economic development. “Functional Areas Integrated deployment of tools in these areas, Environmental Management Strategies including terms of reference, The transnational exchange of (FAIEMS)” with shared transnational cooperation, organization and experiences and cooperation territorial and scientific competence. management by Action Plans, specifically with regard to land and investment and pilot actions. soil as widely neglected environmental FAIEMS include planning strategies with media is strongly needed. innovative technology supported by citizen participation. Local stakeholders The LUMAT Booklet includes in a have initiated pilot projects by using short form the description of the new interactive information tools most important results of the three from the Urban Atlas and citizen years’ work performed by the project observatories. consortium in the field of integrated environmental management of land The ecosystem service concept has resources in functional urban areas. supported the assessment and decision- making process. The implementation is The complete and rich contents of the based on agreed Action Plans and pilot/ LUMAT project obviously cannot be demonstration projects for land and presented in a full framework. Several soil including information database and dozens of deliverables and outputs tool for the management of urban/peri- have been produced by the consortium urban relationships. Action plans include of representatives of 13 scientific, financial instruments and institutional consulting institutions but also regional solutions, e.g. land management and local authorities of cities creating agencies or permanent inter-municipal functional urban areas. working groups. This Booklet is presenting the results Tools on FAIEMS methodology and of the integration of scientific participation constitute an integrative experience and management practice part of FAIEMS (minimize threats and in order to provide solutions which are environmental compensation to get transferable to other regions and cities LUMAT PROJECT | CHAPTER #1 1 THE LUMAT PROJECT 1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONCEPT 1.2 STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECT 1.3 PARTNERSHIP 8 | CHAPTER #1 | LUMAT PROJECT LUMAT PROJECT | CHAPTER #1 | 9 1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONCEPT STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECT 1.2 The basic premises of the LUMAT project and municipalities, and to achieve The creation of the common strategy The common methodology constituted See initiative were concerning the existing sustainable land use through a proper and methodology was the first step of a basis for further considerations chapter 2 and lasting negative phenomena in urban environmental management. the project implementation. resulting in a concept of Action Plans land management appearing in form of: strengthening the environmental The project has indicated that there is The LUMAT concept of a common management of land and soil resources • Growing land use pressure leading a need to find ideas for interregional strategy for integrated environmental in FUAs. According to the idea of LUMAT, to users conflicts, landscape cooperation, tools and instruments to management in Functional Urban Areas the Action Plans have used methods fragmentation, biodiversity loss and resolve the conundrum while respecting (from here on FUAs) with the focus on and tools that are offered by the soil sealing. territorial sovereignty and reflecting the the component of land and soil created environmental management field. problem of fuzziness of the territorial a framework for the development of • Increasing unbalanced urban units. An integrated approach is needed locally based strategies in the respective These methods included in particular developments and declining urban in all partner regions where multiple FUAs in the LUMAT project partners’ ecosystem services approach to areas with vacant and brownfield actors can participate and cooperate countries. decision making, but also others like land. in territorial and environmental compensation measures in relation management to develop their territories. The conceptual approach is based to management of brownfields and • Jurisdiction of the respective on integrated urban environmental degraded areas or industrial symbiosis municipalities’ management ending Two assumptions have been stated management in the FUAs as a tool with environmental criteria in business at its borders which results in an presenting the idea of the project: for the optimization of land-use and co-operation. ineffective management related to soil management and its synergy with the fuzzy character of its borders and • First, the urban land is a valuable the concept of ecosystem services, as For the needs of the project, seven the fuzzy interrelation of governance and limited environmental resource well as management of cooperation of regions have been selected presenting systems. (as it is reflected in the European the city core and its suburban areas various types of FUAs which are documents). including institutional framework. A representative of other regions in In all regions, poorly integrated and multilevel poly-centric governance Central Europe. The project results unsystematic environmental and spatial • Second, land management and was chosen as a core concept for therefore will be useful and applicable policies increase land-related conflict planning are closely connected efficient institutional framework in the in other central European countries not undermining social cohesion and with all development activities: field of sustainable land use and soil included in the project. competitiveness in the urban context, economic, social and environmental management. and new concepts of ecosystem services ones by locating them in space. The main land use conflicts and threats See are not sufficiently applied. The LUMAT concept of a common have been identified and placed at the chapter 3 Therefore, we assume that since the strategy for integrated environmental core for formulating solutions

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