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2015
Landscape protection and planning have attracted the attention of experts in many branches of science and industry. The growing interest in landscape management reflects concerns over environmental degradation that deteriorates the quality of life. Undesirable landscape changes result mostly from civilizational development, inappropriate land use and spatial planning. Further adverse landscape transformations should be prevented at local, regional and national levels. On 24 June 2004, Poland ratified the European Landscape Convention (ELC), which was opened for signature in 2000 in Florence (Italy ). The ratifying countries have committed themselves to enhance the quality of local landscapes which are the basic components of Europe’s natural and cultural heritage. Despite several attempts that resulted in the development of preliminary analytical reports, the Convention has not been implemented in Poland to date. For the Convention to be implemented, landscapes on Polish territory h...
Multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention
… Norwegian Journal of …, 2007
The multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention were the topic of a roundtable panel discussion held at the meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape in September 2006. The roundtable was convened by Kenneth R. Olwig, who together with four other speakers presented the main topics for discussion. Their presentations are given here as a series of short articles. Initially a brief historical background and the main provisions of the European Landscape Convention (Florence Convention) of 2000, in force 2004, are presented. The interfaces with law, landscape ecology, heritage, and globalisation are then successively discussed. Finally, the European Landscape Convention itself is examined as a discursive interface, with contradictory as well as synergetic aspects.
Mainstreaming landscape through the European Landscape Convention
Landscape Research, 2016
Norway, as an original ratifier of the Council of Europe (CoE)-sponsored European Landscape Convention (ELC) of 2004, has long engaged with the ELC's implementation. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences' Department of Landscape Architecture, a leading northern European institute, has participated actively in this work. This fascinating book derives from a symposium celebrating the department's Professor Magne Bruun, who was involved in paving the way for the ELC as described in his chapter, 'How and why was the ELC conceived'. The book therefore appropriately centres on taking stock of the Convention's subsequent implementation. The authors are, unless otherwise noted, largely landscape architects affiliated with the department. This volume of short, pithy and well-written chapters is particularly interesting because it
Sustainability
This article attempts to assess the various ambiguities in the application of the principles of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) in Italy and is divided into two main sections. In the first, a theoretical framework is constructed, analyzing the link between “environment”, “territory” and “landscape”. Attention is focused on the consequences that the different perspectives open up on both the value and operational levels, as well as dealing with attempts at definition. The idea of community is then questioned and some theoretical and practical challenges related to involvement and participation in landscape planning processes are analyzed. In the second part of the paper, the relationship between the city of Palermo (IT) and the Oreto River is taken as an extreme example in the theoretical argumentation and is examined from the perspective of development and current bottom-up practices. The aim of the research is to provide a divergent point of view on the concept of community...
The European Landscape Convention and the Case of Italy after Twenty Years
International Journal of Anthropology, 2021
Geographers have long debated on the topic of landscape, confronting the ideas of other disciplines and policymakers, always contributing to a positive discussion even for juridical purposes, but never forgetting the necessity to behold critically. The term landscape possesses a double meaning (the thing and its representation), indeed suggesting the considerable complexity of the topic. The real intrinsic risk of the 2000 European Landscape Convention is the demand of transforming what has an unavoidable perceptive-aesthetic nature (landscape), in an object that has a political status (territory). But the difference between the political and the aesthetic is crucial and threatens to undermine the very possibility of the existence of landscape policies. Policies do operate by stating rules and norms, all contained in written laws. On the contrary, the aesthetic field is not reducible, by nature, to any rule or norm, except in the case of dictatorial regimes. In Italy, the actual ris...
Ratification of the European Landscape Convention
2017
The European Landscape Convention or Florence Convention is the first organized and targeted effort of the European Union in order for its member states to ensure the proper management and protection of the identity, recognizability and diversity of the landscape throughout the European area. The destruction of the natural environment and the desecration of the cultural heritage distanced societies over time from the space and more specifically from the landscape in which they operate, transform and evolve. Space and time have always been decisive factors for the smooth functioning of social structures, primarily because they create common memories and origins. In this paper, the reception of the concept of landscape in the Greek reality is recorded and to what extent the legal commitments are applied in practice.