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PDF - Landscape mosaics - Thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention (2022)
Landscape protection, management and planning entail rights and responsibilities for everyone.
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes considered outstanding, as well as everyday or degraded areas.
This publication presents thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the convention and addresses a "mosaic" of key issues related to its future. It forms part of a process of reflection on major themes concerning the living environment.
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes considered outstanding, as well as everyday or degraded areas.
This publication presents thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the convention and addresses a "mosaic" of key issues related to its future. It forms part of a process of reflection on major themes concerning the living environment.
Preface
Chapter 1 – Towards a grammar of European landscapes
Chapter 1 – Towards a grammar of European landscapes
Introduction
1. Methodological references
2. Methodological guidelines
Conclusions
Chapter 2 – Designing agricultural landscapes for a sustainable development
Introduction
1. Landscape and agriculture: a long story
2. The contribution of landscape to agriculture
3. Landscape diagnosis and the agroecological project
Conclusions
Chapter 3 – The rural landscape in transition: energy, agriculture and demography
Introduction
1. Rural landscapes in energy transition
2. Rural landscapes in agricultural transition
3. Rural landscapes in demographic transition
4. Rural landscapes in digital transition
Conclusions
Chapter 4 – Experiences of rural landscape
1. Experience of Tuscany, Italy
2. The Manifesto for the beauty of rural landscape in Campania, Italy
Chapter 5 – Urbanisation, town planning and landscape
Introduction
1. Urbanisation, urbanism and landscape: elements of a complex equation
2. The negative effects of urbanisation and contemporary urbanism on landscape
3. Landscape as the foundation, means and purpose of a new type of urbanism
4. Principles for a new, landscape-based urbanism
Conclusions
Chapter 6 – A review of integrated approaches to landscape monitoring
Introduction
1. Theoretical background
2. Principles of landscape monitoring
3. Landscape monitoring bodies and initiatives
4. Proposing a typology of landscape monitoring
5. Future challenges for landscape monitoring
Conclusions
Chapter 7 – Experiences with public funds and the landscape
Introduction
1. Austria
2. France
3. Ireland
4. Latvia
5. Poland
6. Switzerland
7. United Kingdom
8. Canada
9. United States
Chapter 8 – Landscape and responsibility
Introduction
1. The concept of responsibility
2. Responsibility and landscape
3. Towards shared responsibility
4. Responsibility, landscape and well-being
Conclusions
Chapter 9 – Professional recognition of landscape architects
Introduction
1. Professional bodies and global recognition
2. Professional training and practice
3. Professional recognition
4. Investment in landscape
Conclusions
Appendices
Chapter 10 – Dry stone in the landscape, inheritance and innovation for rural sustainability
Introduction
1. Dry stone: timeless and universal
2. The use of dry stone, a contribution to sustainable development
3. A range of uses for this building method
Conclusions
Chapter 11 – Walking the landscape
Introduction
1. A short history of walking
2. From walking to hiking: the effects of industrialisation
3. The development of hiking organisations
4. Walking the landscape: an impression
5. Walking the industrial landscape
6. Walking the urban landscape
7. Organised walking of the landscape
Conclusions
Chapter 12 – Traditional forms of thought and spirituality
Introduction
1. The Waldviertel region in Austria
2. Songlines in Australia
3. Ise in Japan
4. Traditional Chinese concepts
Conclusions
Chapter 13 – Urban landscapes and climate change: the contribution of Landscape Architects to improve the quality of life
1. Quality of life in towns and cities – science-based studies
2. Landscape solutions
3. Learning from landscape
4. Opportunities and issues
Conclusions
Chapter 14 – Landscape and responsibility of stakeholders for sustainable and harmonious development
Landscape protection, management and planning entail rights and responsibilities for everyone.
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes considered outstanding, as well as everyday or degraded areas.
This publication presents thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the convention and addresses a "mosaic" of key issues related to its future. It forms part of a process of reflection on major themes concerning the living environment.
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes considered outstanding, as well as everyday or degraded areas.
This publication presents thoughts and proposals for the implementation of the convention and addresses a "mosaic" of key issues related to its future. It forms part of a process of reflection on major themes concerning the living environment.