Of landscape quality and landscape character
The evolution of landscape assessment in the UK and it's potential application in Austria
Keywords:
landscape quality, landscape character, European Landscape Convention, landscape, naturpark, nature conservationAbstract
Landscape, as the European Landscape Convention defines it, is “an area as perceived by people”. But it is not just people as individuals who perceive landscape. People also create institutions and organisations and they in turn have their own perceptions, especially of something as complex and multi-dimensional as landscape. This paper will, amongst other things consider the way in which the perceptions embodied in the terms of reference of institutions and organisations influence the way in which they approach landscape.
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It should also be noted that British National Parks correspond only to Category 5 of the IUCN’s classification of landscape protection areas, and are thus equivalent in their protection category, if not scale, to the Austrian Naturparks.
“What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare’s Romeo - but he found out to his cost that whether you were called ‘Montague’ of ‘Capulet’ was indeed a matter of life and death for ‘star-crossed lovers’.
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Note: Here too the term used was ‘scenic resources’ and not landscape.
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Countryside Commission 1987, CCD 18 p. 3
See: http://countryscape.org/node/296
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Since the beginning of the 1990s conservation organisations in Great Britain had been undergoing considerable reorganisation, to a large extent in relation to efforts towards devolution. The Countryside Commission was originally responsible for England and Wales was split into two, with the Welsh arm merging with the part of the nature conservation body responsible for Wales to form the ‘Countryside Council for Wales’. In Scotland a new joint authority ‘Scottish Natural Heritage’ was also formed. In England the fields of rural conservation, including landscape, and nature conservation initially remained the responsibility of separate authorities, the Countryside Commission and English Nature.
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