Europe's Living Landscapes
Essays Exploring our Identity in the Countryside
- Editing: Bas Pedroli, Anne van Doorn, Geert de Blust
- Price: € 59,95
Landscape is one of the most fascinating assets of Europe. Its great diversity reflects a multitude of historical layers in an intricate spatial pattern. Our sense of belonging is very much determined by the environment to which we are accustomed, and our perception is an essential component of a community’s well-being, and of visitors’ enjoyment.
However, the European landscape is changing rapidly. The old activities still reflected in the landscape are no longer efficient, and new functions tend to be dominated by new consumer demands, followed and enhanced by national and European policies.
In many areas this leads to loss of identity and to less sympathetic landscapes. But in others a new sense of belonging is being discovered. Balancing the existing assets of the European landscape against the societal need for change is the challenge.
In this book members of the Landscape Europe International Network and other specialists focus on the landscape as they perceive it, the practical problems and the solutions they have discovered in dialogue with inhabitants.
The authors explore the identity of these landscapes and the way they can be restored and reinforced. This book is a source of inspiration for policy makers, landscape managers, researchers and citizens, in the pursuit of sustainable living landscapes in Europe.