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Glossary
Dictionary of terms used in landscape planning and management, as defined by the Landscape Observatory and by other actors and documents, such as the Landscape Protection, Management and Planning Act and the European Landscape Convention.
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- Aesthetic value of the landscape
- A landscape's capacity to transmit a certain feeling of beauty, depending on the significance and cultural appreciation that it has acquired throughout history, also the intrinsic value of the colours, diversity, form, proportions, scale, texture and unity of the elements forming the landscape.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Communication in the landscape
- Transmission of cultural meaning in relation to one or more landscapes through information technology and means.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Concealment
- Landscape integration strategy consisting in the whole or partial hiding from view of certain elements, considered undesirable from certain viewpoints.
Font: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Contextualisation
- Landscape integration strategy based on the establishment of continuity between pre-existing and new elements, through reference to typological, volumetric, structural and chromatic guidelines, etc.
Font: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
- Evaluation of landscape
- Process directed to finding out about the state, dynamics and tendencies of the landscape, to analysing the results obtained and issuing the relevant judgments.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Financial value of the landscape
- Capacity of a landscape to convert its elements into productive resources with a different financial value.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Fund for the protection, management and planning of the landscape
- Financial instrument of the Government of Catalonia for the purpose of allocation to actions for the improvement and preservation of the landscape, addressed to public bodies, private entities and individuals and legal persons acting with these objectives.
Font: Llei 8/2005 de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge
- Historic value of the landscape
- Traces – tangible or intangible – of human activity of current relevance in the landscape.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Identity value of the landscape
- Factor of the landscape or landscapes as a whole with a substantial symbolic or identifying meaning for local people, who can establish relationships of belonging to or identification with it.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Intangible cultural heritage
- Uses, representations, expressions, knowledge and techniques - together with the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces inherent to them - that communities, groups and, on certain occasions, individuals, recognise as an integral part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, which is passed on from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups according to their surroundings, their interaction with nature and their history, instilling in them a sense of identity and continuity and in this way contributing to promoting a respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.
Font: Conveni de la UNESCO per la salvaguarda del patrimoni cultural intangible
- Knowledge of the landscape
- Degree of training and recognition of the landscape pertaining to and experienced by a certain population.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape
- An area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape agent
- Individual or public or private entity interested in landscape, which uses it or has competence in its management.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape catalogue
- Documents of a descriptive and prospective nature, applicable to territorial ambits, which define the types of landscapes in Catalonia, identify their values and state of preservation and propose the quality objectives to be met.
Font: Llei de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge
- Landscape character
- Set of clearly recognisable features which contribute to making one landscape different from another, neither better nor worse.
Font: The Countryside Agency / Scotish Natural Heritage
- Landscape Charter
- Instrument of strategies settled between public and private agents, applicable at local, supramunicipal or district level, for the purpose of carrying out actions for the protection, planning and management of the landscape, and the objective of maintaining its values.
Font: Llei de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge
- Landscape Creation
- Intervention on a portion of the territory for the purpose of improving the landscape conditions and creating a newly imagined one in the event that the original has been lost or deteriorated.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape criteria
- Opinions by which judgement is issued or decisions are taken on the protection, planning and management of the landscape.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape Directives
- Determinations which, based on the Landscape Catalogues, set out the proposed landscape quality objectives and incorporate them into the regulation of the territorial zoning plans or territorial directive plans.
Font: Llei de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge
- Landscape diversity
- Wealth in landscape configuration and character, whether in elements or in landscapes as a whole.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape dynamics
- Natural and human activities and processes which affect the present configuration of the landscape.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape education
- Initiatives in training and teaching in order to promote knowledge of the landscape and sensitivity to the importance of its values and quality.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape element
- Individual component forming the landscape.
Font: The Countryside Agency / Scotish Natural Heritage
- Landscape evolution
- Gradual process by which a landscape changes from one state to another.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape feature
- Landscape element or combination of elements which contributing to giving it its character.
Font: The Countryside Agency / Scotish Natural Heritage
- Landscape for special attention
- Landscape sector with a certain heterogeneity, complexity or singularity from the landscape viewpoint, which requires specific directives and criteria for its protection, management and planning.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape fragility
- Susceptibility of a landscape to the deterioration of its natural, cultural, visual and perceived values.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape fragmentation
- Result of a process of break-up of the continuity of a landscape and its coherence.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape impact
- Disturbance of the landscape caused by a natural phenomenon or by human activity.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape impact and integration report
- Written exposé for the purpose of evaluating the suitability and sufficiency of the criteria or measures adopted in the landscape impact and integration studies for the integration into the landscape of the actions, uses, works or activities to be undertaken.
Font: Decret 343/2006, de 19 de setembre, pel qual es desenvolupa la Llei 8/2005, de 8 de juny, de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge, i es regulen els estudis i informes d'impacte i integració paisatgística
- Landscape impact and integration study
- Technical document designed to consider the landscape consequences of carrying out actions, works projects or activities and to set out the criteria adopted for their integration.
Font: Decret 343/2006, de 19 de setembre, pel qual es desenvolupa la Llei 8/2005, de 8 de juny, de protecció, gestió i ordenació del paisatge, i es regulen els estudis i informes d'impacte i integració paisatgística
- Landscape improvement
- Evolution of the landscape to a better state.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape indicator
- Quantitative or qualitative element allowing an assessment and regular monitoring of the evolution and state of the landscapes, people's satisfaction with their landscape and the effectiveness of public and private initiatives for its improvement.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape integration measure
- Action directed to reducing the landscape impact of a project of works or infrastructure.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape management
- Action, from a perspective of sustainable development, to ensure the regular upkeep of a landscape, so as to guide and harmonise changes which are brought about by social, economic and environmental processes.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape mosaic
- Pattern formed by the various uses of the land which conform a specific territory.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape planning
- Strong forward-looking action to enhance, restore or create landscapes.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape policy
- An expression by the competent public authorities of general principles, strategies and guidelines that permit the taking of specific measures aimed at the protection, management and planning of landscapes.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape protection
- Actions to conserve and maintain the significant or characteristic features of a landscape, justified by its heritage value derived from its natural configuration and/or from human activity.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape Quality Objective
- For a specific landscape, the formulation by the competent public authorities of the aspirations of the public with regard to the landscape features of their surroundings.
Font: Conveni europeu del paisatge
- Landscape restoration
- Set of operations for the purpose of ensuring that the visual perception of an area is similar to or develops in concordance with its state before being altered by human activity.
Font: Termcat
- Landscape satisfaction
- Expression of the degree of contentment or discontent with its landscape of the population living in a certain territorial ambit, caused by various factors.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape sociability
- Quantity and diversity of social relations in the broadest sense, linked to the landscape and generated by the landscape in a certain social spatial and temporal context.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape transformation
- Change in the natural or cultural characteristics of the landscape tending to alter its values or appearance.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Landscape unit
- Portion of territory characterised by a specific combination of landscape components of an environmental, cultural, perceptive and symbolic nature and with clearly recognisable dynamics which result in an individuality differentiated from the rest of the territory.
Font: Observatori del paisatge
- Mimicry
- Landscape integration strategy consisting in dealing with elements of the project so that they can be visually confused with pre-existing elements.
Font: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Naturalisation
- Landscape integration strategy based on restoring the natural image of places by re-establishing the ecological balance.
Font: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Perception of the landscape
- An individual or group's appreciation of the values of a landscape and its state of preservation.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Preservation of landscape
- Mechanisms designed to safeguard the environmental, cultural, visual and perceived values of a landscape from deterioration or loss.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Preservation of Landscape
- Use and management of the landscape compatible with the maintenance of its environmental, cultural, visual and perceived values, for the benefit of society and future generations.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Productive value of the landscape
- Capacity of a landscape to provide financial benefits, converting its elements into resources.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Public information
- Procedure by which, for a specific period of time, the authorities expose a project or plan to the public in order to collect information and suggestions regarding its development.
Font: Termcat
- Recovery of landscape
- Mechanisms designed to halt the degradation or disappearance of an element or group of elements in a landscape and restore them to their original condition, while ensuring their survival for the future.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Report on the state of the landscape
- Four-yearly report by the Landscape Observatory to the Parliament of Catalonia, evaluating the characteristics of the landscape of Catalonia, its evolution, the landscape policies applied by the public institutions and the degree of landscape satisfaction of the people.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Singularity
- Landscape integration strategy based on the establishment of new relationships with landscape elements starting from the leading role given to the presence of a new element.
Font: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Social value of the landscape
- Relates to the use made of the landscape by an individual or group with interests for the community.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Spiritual value of the landscape
- Feature of the landscape or landscapes as a whole related with religious and spiritual practices and beliefs.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- State of the landscape
- Set of natural, cultural and symbolic characteristics found in or shown by a specific landscape.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Trivialisation of the landscape
- Process by which the landscape loses its natural, cultural or symbolic originality or interest.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
- Valorisation of landscape
- The fact of making the environmental, cultural, visual and perceived aspects of landscape valuable.
Font: Observatori del Paisatge
