4 / 2 0 0 7 I S S N 1 8 1 7 - 3 3 4 9 I P S O I L I I I Responsible Use of Soil and Land and Regional Development Conference and Research Program of the Academia Danubiana 9 th - 21 th of March 2007 7 ACADEMIA DANUBIANA Issue 4 / 2007 Kvarda, Werner (ed.) Socrates - Erasmus IP-SOIL III - Intensive Programme Responsible Use of Soil and Land and Regional Development ISSN 1817-3349 Editorial Director: Werner Kvarda Editorial Assistant: Roman Grünner Cover Design and Images: Roman Grünner ACADEMIA DANUBIANA c/o University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna- BOKU Institute of Soil Science Peter-Jordan Straße 82 A - 1180 - Vienna All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISSN 1817-3349 CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) PREFACE 5 Lentsch, K. (Major of Neusiedl am See, 2nd president of Burgenland´s parliament) INTRODUCTION 6 Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences – BOKU, Vienna) CHALLENGES FOR SOIL SCIENCE IN VIEW OF THE EUROPEAN THEMATIC STRATEGY FOR SOIL PROTECTION 10 Blum, W. E. H.; Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) SOCIAL VALUES AND ATTITUDES AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL SOIL USE AND LAND USE ETHICS 14 Prus, T. (University of Ljubljana) KICK OFF MEETING IPSOIL III NOV.30TH – DEC. 1ST 2006 16 CONTRIBUTIONS OF ECONOMICS AS A CHALLENGE FOR INTEGRATED SPATIAL MANAGEMENT 17 AND PLANNING Henriques, J. M. (Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE), Lisboa) CROSS-BORDER ADULT EDUCATION AT THE INTERFACES OF EUROPE 21 Lang, A. (Research Society Burgenland, Eisenstadt) THE SOIL USE IN MOUNTAIN AREAS AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES 24 Stojkov, B.; Pantic, M. (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography) NEW QUALITIES OF TEAM LEARNING – EXPERIENCES FROM THE IP SOIL PROJECT 27 Michalek, C. R. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences - Vienna) PARTICIPATION AND NEW GOVERNANCE 30 Dömötör, T. (Corvinus University, Budapest) GROUPWORK - LIFELONG LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND LAND-USE SYSTEMS 33 CASE STUDIES 36 REVITALISATION OF SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AREA 37 Piják, O. (STU Bratislava) ANALYSIS OF SOIL POLLUTION IN CASE STUDY RAČA/ VÝCHODNÉ 40 Smiralova, M. (STU Bratislava) CHANGING OF LAND USE SCALES FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS – THE BIG 44 AND/OR THE SMALL Möcsenyi, F. (Corvinus University, Budapest) REMOTE SENSING, LEADING ON MAPPING LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND IDENTITY 47 Jombach, S. (Corvinus University Budapest) SUBOTICA MUNICIPALITY AS A LEARNING REGION 52 Pantic, M.; (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography) MEASURES FOR AGRICULTURAL SOIL USE REGULATION IN BELGRADE REGION 55 Zivanovic, J. (Institute of architecture and urban&spatial planning of Serbia, Belgrade) LECTURES AT THE SEMINAR IN NEUSIEDL AM SEE MARCH 2007 57 EXAMPLES OF SOIL PROPERTY RIGHTS ISSUES IN SLOVAK REPUBLIC 58 Husenicova, J.; Korvin, P.; Smiralova, M. (STU Bratislava) A HOLISTIC VIEW ON FUTURE WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE DANUBE REGION – 61 MORE THAN POLICIES Dorner. W.; Spachinger, K.; Schrenk, C.; Schürer. C. (University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf) GREEN MAPMAKING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 65 Kertesz, D. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences - Vienna) THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 70 Dorner, W. (University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf) NEW STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNITIES IN WATER MANAGEMENT 73 Dorner, W.; Spachinger, K. (University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf) 1 PROJECTS – DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS 76 SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN LANDUSE -SURELA 77 Berdis, J. (STU Bratislava) TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE ON RESPONSIBLE USE OF THE SOIL IN THE WESTERN BALKAN 78 COUNTRIES Dorner, W. (University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf); Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna) ENTERTAINING FINAL PRESENTATION OF IP SOIL 82 Prus, T. (University Ljubljana); Stefanova, N.T. (University of Forestry, Sofi a); Pijak, O. (STU Bratislava); Czucz, B., Jombach, S. (Corvinus University Budapest) APPENDIX 86 PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES * PROJECT PARTICIPANTS 87 2 ACADEMIA DANUBIANA 4/2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) Over the last four years I owe a great deal to my We invited José Manuel Henriques from the Higher colleagues and students participating the Socrates Institute for Labour and Business Sciences in Lisboa Erasmus Intensivprogram IPSOIL “Responsible use to collaborate with us, working on contributions of of soil and land and regional development” for their economics for integrated spatial management and enthusiasm, questioning and commitment, which planning, and Alfred Lang for his contribution on adult was stimulating me always for developing a system education. I had like to thank Bärbel Keller on behalf of assembling conceptual, material and strategic of the whole group, for sensational jazz events in the components in a pattern which functions to benefi t life Gerbgruben. in all its forms. And last but not least I am greatly indebted to Rosa My special thanks to my colleagues and friends in Strasser as our mental host for fi nding ´common science and research, Prof. Winfried Blum from the ground´. Special thanks to Roman Grünner organising Institute of Soil Science - BOKU and MR. Dr. Günther the website and design and editorial issues, Claus Pfaffenwimmer from the Federal Ministry of Education Rainer Michalek and Dora Rebeka Kertesz to keep the and Research – Vienna, (ENSI project) for the fruitful e-learning in hand, on track, and up to date. Margarita dis-cussions that helped shaping the concept of the Calderon-Peter and Jutta Heine were always taking project and Prof. Tomaz Prus who was intro-ducing care for proofi ng our fi nal reports going to Brussels. social values and land-use ethics into the project. I am greatly indebted to Wolfgang Dorner and Prof. Borislav Stojkov for their unwavering support with Finally I have to thank Dr. Kurt Puchinger and Major regard for editing and contributing with new ideas for Kurt Lentsch for supporting this project in a political, the project. theoretical and realizable point of view. This project would have been impossible to carry out without the constant care and compassion of my wife. I would like to thank the students from ten different countries who have been an intellectual family to me. Their enthusiasm and intellectual stimulation was a constant source of emotional support. Representative my thanks to Flora Möczenyi and Akos Pottyondi from Hungary, Dobromir Borislavov from Bulgaria, Sandrine Vidal from France, Christof Schrenk from Germany, Karl Spachinger from Austria, Marijana Pantic from Serbia, Pavlina Misikova from Slovakia, Sandra Keyzlarova from Czech republic, Kataryna Kyrylchuk from Ukraine, Aleksander Magyar from Slovenia. 4 ACADEMIA DANUBIANA 4/2007 PREFACE Lentsch, K. (Major of Neusiedl am See, 2nd president of Burgenland´s parliament) After decades of merciless exploitation of ground and soil a visible change in action and thought has follo- wed. Growing pieces of land are declared as protec- ted zones and are, if at all, only cultivated extremely smoothly. It has been found out that permanent sel- fi shness at the cost of nature and environment causes irreversible damage of our continent, and thereby vi- tal resources for mankind will forever be lost. Projects like IPSOIL show all these facts scientifi cally proved. Furthermore they offer solutions in different directions regarding man’s well-being. International assemblies with professors and students coming from half of Europe contribute to the positive development of these studies. For me as the mayor of Neusiedl, it means great pri- de that Professor Kvarda has chosen this town as the centre for this project which has been going on for years already. We can only promise to fully support all these activities and to wish all participants a lot of success. Best regards Kurt Lentsch Mayor of Neusiedl am See 2nd president of Burgenland's parliament 5 INTRODUCTION Kvarda, W. (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences – BOKU, Vienna) If you want to build a ship, Don´t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery One of the real success stories of the European Union on Climate Change (IPCC) is combining in an emphatic are Europe wide educational programmes. Europe way all issues of the soil use, climate protection and offers many possibilities within its´ Higher Educational economic development of the regions. There exists a programmes for obtaining a peaceful and democratic huge demand not only for developing and checking development process inspired by these values and also methods and also delivering realistic estimations by Environmental Education (EE) principles. The about potential and storage length, but much more second enlightenment needs EE for self-organization, than up to now to make clear the interrelationship of in qualifying students to take an active part regarding facts also beyond the scientifi c community, for getting the solution of the future. These co-operations are more infl uence within political judgements. designed to reduce cultural barriers between the European states and to promote the building of a Therefore the question arises, how to bridge between common European Education space. Also Mark Leonard, the available scientifi c knowledge on one hand and the director for International Politics at the Centre for those who need it for defi ning policies, and operational European Reform in London, gives us something to procedures, such as stakeholders, and politicians cheer us up, in his most recent publication: “Why and decision makers on the other hand. Within the Europe will run the 21st Century”. [LEONARD] Leonard Socrates Erasmus project “Responsible use of soil describes a set of values emerging which are focused and land and regional development” (IPSOIL), this on peace, freedom, wealth and democracy, question has been worked on since 2005.