Project news Water-Land-Schap program: 14 initiatives worked out in practice
Solving problems with water in rural areas in an interconnected way is the goal of Water-Land-Schap. The program team, including ILVO, selected 14 projects from 40 submitted proposals to be further developed as land development projects.
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On October 23, 2017, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Agriculture Joke Schauvliege launched the "Water-Land-Schap" program. This program is a new methodology to solve problems with water in rural areas, in close cooperation with the users of the area, such as farmers. With the call Water-Land-Schap, local coalitions had the opportunity to submit their initiatives to the Flemish Land Agency, secretary of the program team Water-Land-Schap.
The call resulted in 40 submitted proposals. These were evaluated by a jury consisting of the program team, including ILVO, and experts in the field of water, agriculture and landscape. From these, 14 have now been selected:- West-Flanders: “De Gaverbeekvallei: een klimaatbestendig landschap” – “Robuuste Waterlopen Westhoek” – “Robuuste waterlopen Westhoek” – “Naar een duurzaam productielandschap”
- East-Flanders: “Barbierbeek verbindt” – “Water-Land-Schap de Maarkebeek” – “Burenwater”
- Antwerp: “Aqualitatieve Mechelse groenteregio” – “Beek. Boer. Bodem. In de vallei van de Aa” – “Werken op de waterscheidingskam: bovenstrooms water-initiatieven in Ravels”
- Flemish-Brabant: "Zuidelijke Zennevallei: Vallei van de Zennebeemden” – “De Laak, een vallei vol kansen” – “Water als bondgenoot in de Getestreek: geïntegreerde oplossingen voor de Grote en Kleine Gete”
- Limburg: “Herk en Mombeekvallei: blauwgroene drager in het buitengebied van Haspengouw” – “Bruggen tussen water, land en schap: Maasvallei en Kempen”
The selected initiatives will form the basis of a land development project, for which a total of 5 million euros has been provided. The local coalitions of the selected initiatives will now work with the program team to concretize their proposal and prepare for implementation. The Water-Land-Schap program will run until 2020.
Project title: Water-Land-Schap
Term: 2017 - 2020
Partners: VLM, VMM, Departement Omgeving, Departement Landbouw en Visserij, VITO, Vlakwa, ANB en Architecture Workroom Brussels
Links: https://www.vlm.be/nl/nieuws/Pages/Geselecteerde-projecten-Water--Land-Schap.aspx
Video: https://vimeo.com/245341754 (Architecture Workroom)
