Abstracts
Abstract
Land policy as an all-encompassing socio-economic domain has experienced a long-standing evolutionary process operating either as a foundational component of spatial planning or as an inherent policy entity in developmental strategies. Either way has endowed the advancement of numerous policy tools of its own, like land administration-registration practices, land banks, land expropriation, land consolidation, pre-emption rights, air rights development transfer, development rights, taxation, re-parceling and land compensation mechanisms. At the same time, land policy has been a rather critical element in all phases of safety planning (emergency planning, recovery-reconstruction planning and disaster mitigation-prevention planning). This study elaborates on the issue of land policy as an eminent component interlinking spatial planning, safety planning and development policies. Further on it highlights the wide variety of land policy tools that allow dealing (proactively and reactively) with disaster management and promoting resilient territories. Set in this context, the aim of this article is to reveal the importance of land policy in flood protection, focusing on a distinct flood risk setting: the Evros River Basin in Northern Eastern Greece; and more specifically in the making of an integrated safety-resilience planning strategy.
Keywords:
- Resilience,
- flood protection,
- land policy,
- spatial planning,
- disaster risk management
Résumé
En tant que processus socio-économique évolutif, la politique foncière est à la fois une composante fondamentale de l’aménagement du territoire et une entité politique inhérente aux stratégies de développement. L’une ou l’autre de ces voies a permis le développement de nombreux outils politiques qui lui sont propres, comme les pratiques d’administration foncière, les banques foncières, l’expropriation foncière, le remembrement, le droit de préemption, le transfert des droits aériens, les droits de développement, la fiscalité et la propriété foncière avec mécanisme de compensation. Dans le même temps, la politique foncière a été un élément assez critique dans toutes les phases de la planification de la sécurité (planification d’urgence, planification de reconstruction et planification d’atténuation / prévention des risques). Cette étude s’intéresse à la question de la politique foncière en tant que composante éminente reliant l’aménagement du territoire, la planification de la sécurité et les politiques de développement. Elle met en évidence la grande variété d’outils de la politique foncière qui permettent de faire face (de manière proactive et réactive) à la gestion des catastrophes et de promouvoir des territoires plus résilients. En se concentrant sur le cas du bassin de la rivière Evros situé dans le nord-est de la Grèce, le but de cet article est de révéler l’importance de la politique foncière dans la protection contre les inondations et plus spécifiquement dans l’élaboration d’une stratégie de la planification de la sécurité plus résiliente.
Mots-clés :
- Résilience,
- protection contre les inondations,
- politique foncière,
- aménagement du territoire,
- gestion des risques
Appendices
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