Abstract
Signed in October 2000, the European Landscape Convention was the first treaty exclusively dedicated to landscape as a holistic unit of territory. It is an international commitment by European governmental organisations to plan instruments for the progressive development of places while safeguarding their natural and cultural dynamics. The Convention includes provisions that should be understood uniformly by the signatory parties at all administrative levels. This article looks at the different approaches to landscape characterisation and identification developed by these parties according to the definitions and specific measures of the Convention. Its purpose is to comprehend the most significant accomplishments and challenges of its implementation. It also aims to disseminate methodologies in the design of landscape tools concerning political and cultural contexts.
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According to the questions from the Information System of the Council of Europe of the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention National Report from Andorra, downloaded from the ELCIS website on 15th March 2019 (https://elcl6.coe.int/WebForms/Public_List.aspx).
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University of Washington (2010).
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Contributos para a Identificação e Caracterização da Paisagem em Portugal Continental (Volumes I, II, III, IV, V + Cartography map + CD-ROM): D’ABREU, Alexandre Cancela (UE); CORREIA, Teresa Pinto (UE); OLIVEIRA, Maria do Rosário (UE). Direção-Geral de Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento Urbano. Lisboa, 2004. ISBN: 972-8569-28-9.
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Constitution of the Portuguese Republic of 1976, 2005 amendment (Official Gazette of the Portuguese Republic Assembly—DR no. 86—Series I—10.04.1976): landscape is subject of Article no. 66 (“Environment and Life Quality”).
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Federal Act of July 1st of 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Landscape (NLP—identification number: CC 451).
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The authors would like to thank the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia team for their support in the writing of the master’s thesis Proposal of a National Landscape Policy for Portugal (da Costa 2019), the primary reference for this article.
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da Costa, C.Q., Curado, M.J. (2024). Landscape Policies of Europe. In: Agnoletti, M., Dobričič, S., Matteini, T., Palerm, J.M. (eds) Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape. Environmental History, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25713-1_7
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