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Socio-economic development, public safety of local communities and environmental protection are the major pillars of the concept of sustainable development of rural areas in Europe. Land consolidation is a complex and time-consuming undertaking, which requires high expenditures, yet it plays an important role in the policy of sustainable and multi-functional development. The rapid climate change observed in recent years, resulting in a number of unusual weather conditions, has also had an effect on the directions of land consolidation development. Natural hazards (e.g., floods, fires, and landslides) are an inseparable element, which needs to be taken into account in the designing of rural space. Due to access to modern analytical technologies and the visualisation of information on a particular area, in combination with the procedure of land consolidation, we have a tool, which also allows us to implement activities in the field of crisis management, particularly at the stage of preventing a crisis, as well as at the stage associated with the restoration of the situation prevailing prior to the hazard occurrence (restoration of damages). The aim of the study is to present the role and significance of the procedure of land consolidation in supporting efforts to prepare for the occurrence of a crisis (inter alia the indication of the location of areas designated for flood protection investment projects in the land consolidation plan) as well as to remove its tragic consequences (inter alia the indication of the location of post-fire areas designated for reforestation in the land consolidation plan).
