Summary:

The subject of the study is to analyze the phenomena threatening the rural areas. The study focused mainly on floods, landslides and drought. The aim of this article is to determine the impact of these risks on space management and to demonstrate how the community in the selected area refer to them in planning documents. The article analyzes the programs, studies, plans and strategies for space management with regard to these events. The analysis showed that not all municipalities in a similar way in addressing the threats. And strategic planning documents do not prohibit development in areas at risk, only they determine that the investment risk borne by the investor. In case of drought analyzed the community to a very small extent, they refer to this phenomenon - although the task in terms of unblocking irrigation ditches and restoration of watercourses exist in each of the surveyed municipalities. In the era of climate change and the occurrence of extreme weather update planning documents and strategic issues of the occurrence and threat protection they are indeed the duty, since they increase safety of life, work and inverter rural areas.