Abstract
The article highlights the problem of natural agricultural-land afforestation with insufficient forest cover of the area. The article purports to substantiate land consolidation aimed at the rationalisation of agricultural and forest land management in such conditions. The authors identify the main approaches to the issue of natural agricultural land afforestation. The afforested areas of agricultural land are suggested for redesignation as a forest resource as a result of a swap and reallotment of land plots. As an example, consolidation of available land, in the conditions of natural afforestation, has been accomplished based on a number of land masses in Chernihiv Oblast’, Ukraine. Resulting from the project implementation, better configuration and improved layout of agricultural land plots have been achieved, while the length and placement of country lanes have been optimized. The reforested agricultural areas within the specific land mass have been redesignated as a forest resource. The advantages and disadvantages of natural afforestation in land consolidation are identified in contrast to alternative approaches.The research findings can be used by territorial communities in the upgrade of land management practices, laying out and redesign of landscape parks and other nature conservation areas that include areas of business activity.
Highlights
Land consolidation is an important constituent of sustainable regional development [1, 2]
We suggest resolving the issue of natural agricultural land afforestation in the course of land consolidation
Over the course of reallotment (Fig. 6): – the configuration and placement of land plots were improved; – the placement of country lanes was optimized and their length within the project territory was minimized by 2,410 m; – 2,470,222 m2 of afforested agricultural land was added to the forest resource
Summary
Land consolidation is an important constituent of sustainable regional development [1, 2]. Owing to the wide range of objectives, we distinguish between various land-consolidation types: rural, forestry, urban, regional and environmental. Demetriou et al [3] singles out possible combinations of various land consolidation types within one project. The design of such projects is less well described in the literature and there are fewer implementation cases. This is explained by the complexity of correlating the purposes and land reallotment justification. The prospects of such approaches are especially discernible, when the land-use type alteration is prompted by external natural or anthropogenic factors [4]
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