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Landscape Rehabilitation: The Old Drava Programme

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The Drava River

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Floodplains are highly sensitive to human pressure. The lower sections of the Hungarian catchment of the Drava River, particularly the Drava Plain, have suffered large-scale landscape degradation in recent decades. The negative influences affected both the physical and socio-economic environment. To counter negative impacts from upstream flow impoundment, bed material excavation and other kinds of human impact, a comprehensive government project of landscape rehabilitation, the Old Drava Programme, was launched in Hungary. In the core of the Programme, the water replenishment scheme focuses on the improvement of water availability of the floodplain through replenishment indirectly from the main river channel. The scheme is meant to take advantage of a network of abandoned drainage elements (oxbows, abandoned channels, levee crevasses, backswamps) in the floodplain. On this basis, an ambitious landscape management project is designed with the announced long-term objective of significantly improving economic (employment), social (integration of ethnicities), and cultural (preservation of cultural heritage and its utilization for increasing tourism potential conditions). Rehabilitation potential is used as a measure to express the extent to which the scope of ecosystem services/landscape functions can be broadened. Water availability and the ensuing landscape transformations are monitored with the purpose of assessing the efficiency of the core project of the Old Drava Programme (a water transfer scheme) in the test area of the Cún-Szaporca oxbow. Based on the findings of monitoring the short-term success of the first lake replenishment campaign is evaluated. Through the assessment of expected provision of ecosystem services, the long-term benefits and deficiencies of the scheme are highlighted.

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Lóczy, D., Dezső, J. (2019). Landscape Rehabilitation: The Old Drava Programme. In: Lóczy, D. (eds) The Drava River. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92816-6_21

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