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Flachner Zsuzsanna MTA TAKI/RISSAC
Key lessons on participatory river basin
management in Upper Tisza, Hungary

• Key issues in the Tisza basin
• methodologies applied
• participatory assessment typology
• key messages

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Tisza river basin
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1 Bereg landscape 2 Bodrogköz landscape 3
Nagyköru municipality 4 Tisza basin (HU) VTT
Association for Living Tisza TÁJ-KÉP
(landscape-vision)
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Key issues in the Tisza river basin
- Floodrisk, waterlogging, drought
yellow low waterlog threat green middle
waterlog threat blue high water log threat red
extreme water log threat
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Key issues in the Tisza river basin

Natural - Ecological decline, loss of
biodiversity, fragmentation - increase of risks
flood, draught, invasive species, pests - soil
degradation (texture, productivity), stagnating
water - groundwater decline, pollution of
resources (local, transboundary) - landscapes
under different threats ( fragmentation,
aesthetic loss, etc.) Social - ageing,
migration from the region - increasing minority
issues (gypsies) - high unemployment rate (avg.
30. but up to 70) - low education and
awareness, loss of traditional knowledge -high
cultural values under threat Economic -
poverty, segregation - land fragmentation,
unclear ownership - lack of management capacity
and co-operation
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Theoretical base of floodplain revitalization
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Historic land use change in the region

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Quality of Life
After Constanza et al, 2008
How Need Fulfillment Is Perceived

How Needs are Met
Human needs Subsistence Reproduction Security Af
fection Understanding Participation Leisure Spirit
uality Creativy Identity Freedom
Emberi igények Élet fenntartás
Szaporodás Biztonság Meghatározottság Értés Részv
étel Pihenés Spiritualitás Kreativitás Önkép Szaba
dság
Subjective Well-Being (happiness,
utilitity,welfare, land-cousciousness, Nature
affection) /for individuals and/or groups/
Opportunities To meet human Needs, now and in
the future - sustainable (Built, Human Social and
Natural Capital and time)
Q method
Scenarios, Envisioning, evolving social
norms Értékrendek
Policy, Decisions (community-individual level)
Participative planning and realization
Ecosytem services
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Main features of Tisza basin participation
Property massive changes, still severe problems
at local level in non productive regions such
as Tisza basin 80 - 20 syndrome Democracy
transparency (planning, decision making, data
management) public controll free media strong
civic groups are missing Long term strategies
neither for specific regions nor for the country
(eg. Water strategy just in formulation following
the TAJ-KÉP SCENES process)

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Key questions in policy setting and
implementation
Who participate? How they participate? What are
the outcomes? How the outcomes are turned to
implementation? How evaluation and feedback
mechanisms are implemented?

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Buttom up approach participative planning at
sub-basin level
Common understanding of processes, drivers,
cause-effect relationship TÁJ-KÉP Joined
discussion in several rounds suport with
informaion and proper facilitation

Thinking for future scenario development,
adaptation options - floodplain utilization,
natural capital/ES concept Piloting - Planning
and initiate small scale measures and
institutions Feedback lessons and reshape
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Context
business
banks
investors
media
management
policy
Science
Public
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Context- who we have to talk to discuss with?
business
banks
investors
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media

management
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policy
Resource Owners?
, no
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Science
Public
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Process Assessment of SHs participation
patterns

Strategy setting
Strategy setting- Participative planning
Sterk et al, 2008
Assessment tools modelling
Achieved goals
Reframing threaths vulnerability
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Process Assessment of agents (SHs) cooperation
patterns in the case studies
 

? Management/ Agencies/ private enterprizes
After Sterk et al, 2008
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Assessment example for participative planning in
different regions

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Elements of local decision making

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Key drivers identified by Tisza SHs (TÁJ-KÉP)

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Key messages from PP - main dilemma

To try to manage the problems in the present
structures and generate new (larger) ones

• Try to find key drivers and find solutions to
  change them in other structures

• Our future depends on our capacity to be able to
  recognize the wronge structures and the way to
  change them.
• It is not a matter of financial resources more
  the ability to see, recognize and develop social
  capacity to change

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Challanges of effective particiption

• The bottlenecks of the Tisza society
• Ablity to participate knowledge, time and
  resources
• Tackle the problem of shade-actors/lobby groups
• Agriculture production and subsidy structures
  (land ownership, property structure, machinery,
  knowledge, co-operation)
• Water management structures harmonized with
  landscape infrastructure
• Long term strategies desinged and implemented in
  the light of different scenarios to be adaptive
  and prepared, resourse protection oriented

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Thanks for your attention!Flachner_at_rissac.hu