Applied Hydrotechnical Measures in Sustainable Land Management, Case Study: Timis County, Romania

摘要

Sustainable land management (SLM) refers to practices and technologies that aim to integrate the management of land, water, biodiversity, and other environmental resources to meet human needs while ensuring the long-term sustainability of ecosystem services and livelihoods. According to Romanian scientific methodology, hydrotechnical measures also include land reclamation and improvement systems as irrigation, land drainage and soil erosion control works. The integration of land reclamation works in sustainable land management represents a new scientific approach especially regarding the problem from the point of view of ecosystem services provided by these works. This type of approach will overrun the interdisciplinary borders and will assume o stronger cooperation from planning to implementation. This paper will debate the feasibility and opportunity of integrating applied hydrotechnical measures like irrigation and drainage works in the frame of sustainable land management.