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At the time when Italy was trying to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in the northern region of Lombardy, politics in Slovakia were in the middle of a heated campaign in the run-up to the general election on 29 February 2020. Many holidaymakers used the opportunity to vote from abroad through postal ballot, without the need to return early from their travel abroad. The first case of the disease was confirmed in Slovakia on 6 March. Thereafter, everything unfolded quickly. The country closed its borders to non-residents and non-citizens on 13 March. All international travel by air and land halted. The number of confirmed cases was up to a hundred in the early days of the emergency, with no deaths.The new government formed within three weeks of the election. The most substantial change in the executive for almost a decade happened inconspicuously because of the impending public health crisis, which overshadowed everything else. The new government headed by the winning party OĽaNO (Ordinary People and Independent Personalities) replaced in power the party of three-time PM Rober Fico. New PM Igor Matovič came into power on an anti-corruption platform, and it was immediately not clear if he was ready to fight against a global pandemic instead. The government, consisting of four parties with the constitutional majority, was formally appointed on 21 March and had to focus its attention on contingency planning immediately, withouth having the benefit of experience and comprehensive understanding of the processes in the healthcare system. Within four days of appointment, on 25 March, the government secured passage of omnibus emergency legislation ("COVID-19 emergency legislative package"), which focused primarily on two areas: quick adjustments to secure continuous functioning of the judiciary, and the implementation of a scheme for tracking and retaining phone data. In the first two sections of this contribution, we examine the legal framework of the state of emergency in Slovakia and the key provisions of the omnibus legislation. In the third section, we pick five measures which temporarily restricted human rights and freedoms of specific groups of citizens, namely foreigners, persons returning from abroad, members of the ethnic minority in several hotspots of COVID-19, and seniors. The relative inexperience of the new government led to it committing mistakes that infringed In this contribution. We pick five of them, with the most consequence for the rights and freedoms of citizens.

Denne eksempelsamling er udarbejdet af Sektion for Landskabsarkitektur og Planlægning, IGN, Københavns Universitet efter aftale med Miljøstyrelsen, der ønsker at sætte fokus på kommunernes integration af natur- og landskabsværdier i aktuelle klimatilpasningsprojekter.Eksempelsamlingen præsenterer et udvalg af projekter, hvori vand indgår som et væsentligt element. Eksempelsamlingen skal ses som et første skridt i retning af en mere omfattende undersøgelse af mulighederne for at integrere natur og landskabs-interesser i aktuelle klimatilpasningsprojekter. For hvert eksempel beskrives de vand-faglige problematikker og de konkrete løsninger i relation til natur- og landskabs-interesser, herunder landskabsæstetiske værdier, det vil sige landskabernes rumlige indretning og konsekvenser for deres oplevelsesmæssige indhold.Målet med eksempelsamlingen er at give et indtryk af, hvordan projekter i vandløb og ådale har været udført hidtil. Eksemplerne illustrerer samlet set udviklingen fra naturgenopretningsprojekter gennemført fra 1980’erne og frem til 2010’ernes klimatilpasningsprojekter, hvor håndtering af vand har været et gennemgående tema, men hvor de overordnede formål har været forskellige. Eksemplerne illustrerer forskellige fysiske indgreb i landskabet og beskriver de hensyn til naturinteresser, som der er taget i projekterne.Eksempelsamlingen afsluttes med en sammenfatning af tendenser i projekterne, en opsummering af generelle udviklingsforløb og perspektiver af interesse for den aktuelle debat om klimatilpasning i det åbne land. This sample collection has been prepared by the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, IGN, University of Copenhagen, in agreement with the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, which wishes to focus on municipalities' integration of nature and landscape values ​​into current climate adaptation projects.The sample collection presents a selection of projects involving water as an essential element. The sample collection should be seen as a first step towards a more comprehensive study of the possibilities of integrating nature and landscape interests into current climate adaptation projects. For each example, the water-related problems and the concrete solutions in relation to natural and landscape interests are described, including landscape aesthetic values, that is, the spatial layout of the landscapes and consequences for their experiential content.The purpose of the sample collection is to give an impression of how projects in streams and streams have been carried out so far. The examples collectively illustrate the evolution of nature restoration projects carried out from the 1980s and up to the 2010 climate adaptation projects, where water management has been a pervasive theme but where the overall objectives have been different. The examples illustrate various physical interventions in the landscape and describe the considerations of nature interests that have been taken in the projects.The sample collection concludes with a summary of the trends in the projects, a summary of general development processes and perspectives of interest in the current debate on climate adaptation in rural landscapes.