Basic principles of the Smart Landscape concept
- Overall optimization of water management.
- Minimizes the impacts of hydrological extremes – drought and floods.
- Is an environmentally sound and sustainable part of the intensification of agriculture and forestry.
- Minimizes soil erosion.
- Makes the landscape more comfortable for living, including microclimate modification.
- Promotes overall biodiversity.
- Increases the aesthetic value of the landscape.
- Represents a sophisticated landscape system of interconnected water management, soil protection and eco-stabilizing elements supplemented by rational landscape management.
Smart Landscape pilot projects against drought and floods
- Pilot projects are steps we currently lack in order to be able to generalize certain new principles of active landscape creation in the interest of adaptation. Methodologies for designers will follow so that these principles can be implemented across the board.
- Close co-operation with the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Regional Development is necessary.
- A total of 3 pilot projects have been prepared (all territories are owned by CZU, which will enable smooth handling of relationships not only as part of the research and design of pilot projects, but primarily in the implementation of the proposed measures).
Smart Landscape I
(agricultural landscape in the Rakovník region, approximately 500 ha of agricultural land, average value, below-average precipitation, all land plots are owned by CZU)
Smart Landscape II
(forest landscape near Kostelec nad Černými lesy, approximately 500–1000 ha of forest land, the commercial forest is dominant, average precipitation, all land plots are owned by CZU)
Smart Landscape III
(urbanized landscape in Prague, approximately 30–50 ha of urbanized areas as part of the CZU campus, average precipitation, all land plots owned by CZU)