Presentation made by Dr. László Miklós,Technical University in Zvolen, Toolbox workshop, 25. August 2012.

1. Integrated management of the landscape
Concept and teaching
Prof. RNDr. László Miklós, DrSc.
Technical University in Zvolen
Slovakia
laszlo.miklos@savba.sk
miklos@tuzvo.sk

2. Content
1. Integration, integrated approach: basic questions
2. Institutional tools for integrated management in Slovakia
4. Teaching the integrated management

3. 1. Integration, integrated approach:
the basic questions
Resource for proper education

4. The basic questions
Integration –
 a command of the present days
but at the same time
 a fashion,
 a favorite theme for politicians
Does everybody know, what is it about?
At least there are different understandings!

5. Political support for integrated approach
 Slogan since 1992
 Strong political support:
 Rio Summit `92: AGENDA 21
Not too much happened since !
 WSSD 2002 Johannesburg: integrated approaches / top priority
 EU support: NATURA 2000, Water Framework Directive
(Integrated watershed management)
 Slogan today –
political, less based on professionality.

6. Basic terms: „Integrated“
Integrated : When we can speak about?
When respecting the
natural precondition: integrated approach to the
water and the vessel
(the landscape as a geosystem)
i.e. not only relation surface water/underground water
political/economic precondition:
needs of all sectors and stakeholders

7. Integration of integration (?)
 Not big difference betwen
- IWRM
- Integrated watershed management
- Integrated landscape management
since water resources are in watersheds, watershed is
the landscape
 Integrated approach should not restrict the
work of specialists in water sector

8. What is that?
• landscape
• geosystem
• ecosystem
• watershed
• territory
• region
• environment
A material reality! The terms are only worlds!

9. Agenda 21, Chapter 10:
Integrated approach to the management of
land resources
 There is only one landscape in the same
space – it is to be accepted by each sector
 Therefore an integrated approach is
needed for its use

10. What (is possible) to integrate ?
? natural bodies – not
possible
? land use form – not
possible – all the forests,
fields, built objects,
industry, transport need
their territory
? land use mode - limited
? physical management -
limited – different sectors,
owners, users

11. The reality and the models
Picture of the
(real) landscape
Model
(abstraction of the
real landscape)
Landscape models:
– topical
– chorical

12. The CONTENT:
topicalmodel of
the landscape
• a1- air
• a2- technical objects
and land use
• a3- vegetation and fauna
• a4- relief (georelief)
• a5- soils
• a6- waters
• a7- geological base

13. Chorical model of the
landscape
SGs10
SGs9
SGs8
SGs7
SGs6
SGs5
SGs4
SGs3
SGs2
SGs1

14. What is the object of integration?
 The management of the
geosystem as a whole!
• Not of its single elements!

15. Basic terms: „Management“
Management:
 ruling procedure, not physical actions
planning - projecting - regulation - control
Right tools for integration:
 procedures supported by legislation
 dealing with the water&vessel
Tools for integration are country specific

16. Basic terms: „Integrated planning“
What is an integrated plan?
A frame plan on the optimal organisation and utilisation of the
territory for
all sectors and for the whole territory
answering the questions
= what,
where,
how ?
Agenda 21, Chapter 10:
Integrated approach to the management of land resources
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17. What is possible to integrate ?
 the approach (a theorethical issue)
 The information system on the geosystem
– should be the same for each sector
 The planning – the tools of organisation
of the territory = yes!!!
More preciselly the process chain of:
planning > projecting > regulation > control

18. 2. Institutional tools for integrated
management
in Slovakia
The determining basement for the
teaching

19. Tools for spatial organisation
= tools for integrated management
Competency of the Ministry of environment:
OP Nature conservation (territorial nature conservation)
KP Landscape-ecological planning (?), econet planning
IMP Management of the watersheds
FP Flood protection
IPPC - Integrated prevention and pollution control (lPPC)
Competency of other ministries:
ÚPN Territorial planning (MVaRR / MŽP)
PPÚ Agricultural land arrangement (MP)
LHP Forest management planning (MP)

20. The key elements for integration in Slovakia
the Territorial System of Ecological Stability
TSES
Actually the econet (biocorridors, biocentres,
interactive elements)
defined in all mentioned acts !

21. Provisions of the Act 7/2010 Z.z. on Flood Protection
§ 9 Coordination of the plan of the management of flood risk
with the watershed management plan and with the other
spatial planning
 land arrangement
 plan of the flood
risk projects,
management shall be
coordinated  territorial plans
 watershed with the
management  forest management
plan plans
They alltogether will constitute the tool of
integrated landscape management
on the whole territory of the watershed.

22. Basic precondition for realisation
 Unified complex information
basement on GIS
 Landscape plans as legal,
obligatory frame and
obligatory regulative
for each sectoral plan
including the water management plans
 According to the provisions of AGENDA 21

23. Scheme of the sequence in the integrated
landscape management

24. 3.Teaching
the integrated management

25. Basic statement
Integrated management:
not a single topic,
but
a systematically organised set of topics.

26. The main pilars of the sustainable
development =
basement for the education programes, too
Ecological and environmental topics
– Geografical disciplines
– Ecology, landscape ecology
– Environmental disciplines
Social-science topics
– Law, Economics, Management
Technical topics
- Industry, agriculture, forestry, construction
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27. An example -
The study programme
„Environmental management“
Bachelor and master degree
Technical University in Zvolen
Faculty of Ecology and Environmental sciences

28. The frame of the programme
The Bachelor degreeThe master degree
 Managerial basement
 Projecting basement
 Projecting basement
 Complementary topics
 Natural scientific basement
 Environmental basement
 Managerial basement
 Complementary topics

29. –
Environmental management – bachelor
Natural scientific basement
Detailed theme Topics
Abiotic components Geológia a geomorfológia
Hydrológia a hydrografia
Meteorológia a ekoklimatológia
Pedológia
Biotic componnets Základy biológie a ekológie
Biotické komplexy I.
Biotické komplexy II
Aplikovaná zooógia
Dendrológia a ekológia drevín
Landscape as a complex Biogeografia
Agroekosystém a lesný ekosystém
Krajinná ekológia

30. Environmental management – bachelor
Environmental basement
Detailed theme Topics
Chemistry and physics Chémia v životnom prostredí
Toxikológia a ekotoxikológia
Energetics and industry Energetika a životné prostredie
Environmentálne problémy
v priemysle a ťažbe
Odpadové inžinierstvo I.
Agriculture Environmentálne aspekty
v poľnohospodárstve a lesnom
hospodárstve

31. Environmental management – bachelor
Managerial basement
Theme Topics
Economics and law Ekonómia ŽP
Správne právo SR
Environmentálne právo SR a verejná správa ŽP
Company management Podnikové hospodárstvo
Bioinžinierstvo a biotechnológie
Pracovné prostredie
Manažment životného prostredia I. - Environmentálne riziká
a havárie
Controll and assessment Integrovanná prevencia a kontrola znečistenia
Posudzovanie vplyvov činností na ŽP I. (E.I.A.)
Environmentálna kvalita a environmentálne vhodné výrobky
Landscape management Ochrana prírody a krajiny
Krajinné plánovanie
Environmentálne projektovanie
Globálne problémy ŽP

32. Environmental management – bachelor –
Complementary topics
Theme Topics
Informatics Aplikovaná matematika a štatistika
Štatistické a databázové systémy
Informatika
Základy GIS (GIS I.)
Prevádzka geografických informačných systémov
(GIS II.)
Maping and monitoring Monitoring životného prostredia
Mapovanie a DPZ
Foreign language Gramatika odborného štýlu
Odborná komunikácia

33. Environmental management – inginieur
Managerial basement
Theme Topic
Management Manažment životného prostredia II. – Environmentálne
manažérske a auditorské systémy (EMAS)
Manažment chránených území
Integrovaný manažment krajiny
Assessment and audit Posudzovania vplyvov činností na životné prostredie II.
Poradenstvo, posudková činnosť a environmentálny audit
Trvalo udržateľný rozvoj
Complementry to management Reprezentatívne geoekosystémy SR
Priestorová štruktúra krajiny
Morfometrické analýzy a syntézy

34. Environmental management – inginieur
Projecting basement
Theme Topics
Projecting basement Základy územného plánovania
Urbanizované a technické prostredie
Pozemkové úpravy a lesohospodárske
plánovanie
Územný systém ekologickej stability
Biotopy a ich aplikácia v územných
systémoch ekologickej stability
Tvorba a rekultivácia krajiny
Complementary topics Komunikácia s verejnosťou (Účasť
verejnosti na rozhodovaní)
Metódy výskumnej práce

35. Environmental management – inginieur
Scope-broadening topics
Theme Topics
Political topics Štátna a medzinárodná environmentálna
politika
Medzinárodné environmentálne právo EÚ
Ethics, phylosophy, education Environmentálna výchova
Filozofické aspekty vzťahu človeka a prírody
Etika a výchova k ľudským právam
Selection Úžitkové vlastnosti rastlín a biotopov
Klimatické zmeny a ich dôsledky na životné
prostredie
Cudzí jazyk – Odborná komunikácia.

36. The target groups
 Scientists
 Teachers
• Public administration
• Environmental management
• Spatial planning and projecting
• Technological proceses
(water, agriculture, forestry, industry, construction, communal activities,
recreation)
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37. Požiadavky:
Ideálna požiadavka na riadenie
 Rozvinuté ekologické vedomie
 Prierezové vedomosti
 Špecifické vedomosti o
 ekologických,
 ekonomických, legislatívnych
 technologických
princípoch riadenia životného prostredia.
Tieto vedomosti musia byť vo vzájomnej rovnováhe.
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38. It is certainly not all what remained as
problem
The hope:
All those problems are solvable !
Depend on people.
There is still a lot of work
for all of us!!!