Land consolidation and readjustment experiences challenges in Slovenia
Anka Lisec et al.
The paper aims to present the Slovenian experiences in the fields of land consolidation in rural areas and land readjustment in urban areas. In the today?s Slovenian territory, the first land consolidation projects were carried out already in the beginning of the 20th century but in a small scale. After the WWII, the government (at the federal Yugoslav as well as at the republic Slovenian level) tried to cope with the problem of agricultural land fragmentation more systematically. The most intensive land consolidation period was 1976?1990. The political changes in the beginning of 1990s and transition to market economy brought modifications of land consolidation procedures. The Slovenian government has been supporting the implementation of new land consolidations in the framework of the rural development program since 2007. Anyhow, the approaches to land consolidations have changed considerably in the past decades, where non-agricultural aims have been included. In addition to the efforts aimed at making agriculture and forestry more competitive through a comprehensive reallocation process, improvement of road and drainage networks, landscaping, environmental management, conservation projects, and other functions may be implemented by land consolidations. While Slovenia has a long tradition in agricultural land consolidation, the urban land readjustment is a novelty, which was legally introduced in 2002. Despite limited experiences in this field, there have been good practices developed in the past decade.
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