Multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention

Abstract

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.

Keywords:

• European Landscape Convention
• globalisation
• heritage
• interfaces
• landscape ecology
• law

Notes

1. The origin and evolution of landscape ecology is elaborated in several textbooks, e.g. Naveh & Lieberman (1984), Sanderson & Harris (2000), Goigel Turner & Gardner (2001), Gergel & Goigel Turner (2002), and Burel & Baudry (2003).