EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION. POLICY AND PLANNING INNOVATIONS

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The landscape valorisation is a central objective in Europe, since the approvation of the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe, ELC, 2000). ELC gives centrality to the sustainability strategy, stimulated the development of an innovative system of policies aimed at protecting natural and cultural heritage of the landscape, managing and planning the landscape as a framework of the population lifestyles, as an expression of regional and local identity and diversity, and as an important resource of social-economic and territorial development. The Convention introduces in the pan-European context a reference strategy for action in order to disseminate a common approach in different landscape planning traditions, aimed at valorizing the landscapes for the sustainability of the territories. The paper discusses the legislative innovations, policies, plans, design methodologies which were developed by various countries during the ten-year period following the approval of the ELC. Th

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