MANAGEMENT CONCEPT OF THE RIVER PINKA AS A RESULT OF AN ACTIVE INVOLVMENT OF INTERESTED PARTIES - THE AUSTRIAN/HUNGARIAN SUMAD PROJECT

摘要

Sumad ("Sustainable Use and Management of Alluvial Plains in Diked River Areas") is a German-Austrian-Hungarian cooperation project within the Community Initiative INTERREG Ⅲ B (CADSES) of the European Union to reconcile necessary contributions of flood protection with sustainable development and use of rivers and their alluvial plains. The main goal of the project is the interdisciplinary approach to develop and implement strategies and instruments for a sustainable and integrated management of alluvial plains in diked river areas. The production, review and updating of the management concept is the result of an active involvement of all interested parties, land owners, NGO's and authorities during public hearings and discussions in context with article 14 of the EU-WFD.Comparisons with historical maps show only small portions of the Pinka remaining in its natural state. Suitable measures of flood prevention in the alluvial plains (e.g. tree clearing) often contradict national and European nature protection goals (e.g. NATURA 2000). At the basis of the "Leitbildkonzept", an interdisciplinary approach for an integrated management of the flood plain was discussed within a transnational cooperation. Aspects of river reconstruction lateral and longitudinal continuum, flood protection, wastewater treatment, tourism and future land use are integrated in a management concept of the river Pinka based on the active involvement of all interested parties during public hearings. At the first step a complete list of interests was set up with a spatial focal point for integrated investigations and measures within the project for the alluvial plains of the Pinka valley. Out of this list of ideas, various concepts and measures adjusted to local circumstances have been developed in order to contribute to an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable.