Sustainable Land Use Planning Solutions for Water Supply Reservoirs in Serbia

Ljubiša Bezbradica,Marijana Pantić,Jelena Živanović Miljković

doi:10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n4p18

Abstract

This paper starts from the fact that spatial and urban planning promote rational land use planning and express interests in the sustainable development of land, water and related resources and infrastructure. The authors here look for sustainable land use planning solutions in the domain of water management within the spatial plans. A starting point of this paper is the fact that integration of water management issues (i.e. drinking water management) into land use planning is essential in achieving sustainable development. Considering this, the paper focuses on analysis of land use planning solutions given within three spatial plans that include areas of water supply reservoirs. The authors give an analysis of the set of measures prescribed by zoning ordinances within spatial plans concerning water protection and protection from water (i.e. flood water evacuation). The authors conclude that analyzed spatial planning documents give sustainable land use solutions, since land use planning, through the zoning, represent a starting point in water protection.Keywords: Spatial Planning, Sustainable Land Use, Water Management, Water Reservoirs, Serbia

Highlights

Sustainable water resources management and securing availability of water resources are among 17 global sustainable development goals that should be achieved until 2030 at all levels (UN, 2015)
Spatial planning regulates sustainable land use within water management by defining principles, goals, general and specific aims, as well as by defining measures according to certain topic
Since the Order regulates restrictions, a special purpose area spatial plans (SPASPs) task is to upgrade it by defining activities which are allowed and complementary to the primary purpose of reservoir area

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Sustainable water resources management and securing availability of water resources are among 17 global sustainable development goals that should be achieved until 2030 at all levels (UN, 2015). There are water reservoirs of different primary purpose – for water-supply, energy production (hydro power-plants) or for mitigation of consequences expected due to torrent flows. In the case of reservoirs planned for water-supply, use of the surrounding land is more restrictive. This is in other to secure their primary purpose – high water quality. Legal and planning framework allow much higher level of creativity when it comes to multifunctional land use and development of activities around reservoirs with primary function in energy production or mitigation of excessive precipitation impact (Pihler et al, 2013; Danilović Hristić et al, 2018). In cooperation with other complementary disciplines, spatial planning in Serbia

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