Water availability in Northern Bohemia in Czech Republic
The case study region (CSR) „Northern Bohemia“ consists of two districts (LAU1): CZ0421 Decin and CZ0511 Ceska Lipa. The area of the case study region accounts for 1982 km2 and there live 235 thousand inhabitants. The average income (in PPS GDP per capita) amounts €11500 in 2012 which is 40% below the EU average and 25% below the national average.
The participants in the first stakeholder workshop identified water availability as a critical public good issue in the north-west part of the case study region – we marked it as the hot spot CZ1. The CZ1 region exhibits the level of rainfalls usually above the national average. In addition, the share of grasslands on agricultural lands exceeds 80% there. It assured sufficient supply of surface and underground water in the past. However, with the climate change temperature increase and weather irregularities local people, agriculture and forestry are exposed to dry seasons with which the current land management system and practices cope only with difficulties. Drought resilience requires coordination among stakeholders like farmers, foresters, water management bodies and environmental administrations (and perhaps also some NGOs).
We consider two public goods – the primary one “water availability” (rather intangible) and the secondary one – a tangible face of the primary public good “high water retention capacity of cultural landscape”.
Farmers willingness to provide land for the construction of technical measures to increase the provision of water. Read more…
Concentrating local actors for landscape water management. A collective approach. Read more….
Stakeholder Portal
Here you can find outcomes of the participatory workshops and further dissemination material.
Contact for the case study region:
- Tomas Ratinger, Iva Vancurova
Technology Centre of the CAS
Ve Struhach 1076/27,
160 00 Prague 6
Czech Republic