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the observatory's choice 03 Blueprint for Euroscape 2020: Reframing the Future of the European Landscape Document 07/08/2008 | Publication by the Landscape Europe association within the frame of the seminar 'Blueprint for Euroscape 2020: Reframing the Future of the European Landscape' (May 2008), offers methodologies and objectives in order for the european landscapes to be taken into consideration within policy agendas. Video 18/06/2008 | Video feature with the director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia attending the general session of the Catalan Land Policy Committee, held on the 30th of April 2008. The session focused mainly on the bill to amend the Road Act 7/1993, passed on the 30th of September 1993. Land-use scenarios for Europe: Qualitative and quantitative analysis on a European scale (PRELUDE) Document 30/03/2008 | Report by the European Environment Agency summarising the results of the PRELUDE project, analysing five different possible scenarios of the use of land in Europe over the next 30 years. 'Looking at the future development of Catalonia, what are the key territorial aspects?' [pdf 141 Kb] Article 13/03/2008 | Chapter in number 5 of the journal VIA. Valors, Idees, Actituds (January 2008), published by the Jordi Pujol Study Centre, where Joan Antoni Solans, Ramon Folch, Joan Nogué, Albert Serratosa, Josep Oliva and Albert Vilalta give their answers to the question posed in the title. This issue of the journal raises a debate with the participation of more authors around the question of territories in transition. The Spanish State ratifies the European Landscape Convention [pdf 52 Kb] Document 29/02/2008 | Publication in the Official State Journal, no. 31 of 05-02-08, of the ratification by the Spanish State of the European Landscape Convention on 6 November 2007. The Convention comes into force on 1 March 2008. 'Nostalgia por el paisaje perdido' [pdf 790 Kb] Article 11/02/2008 | Article by Rosa M. Bosch, published in La Vanguardia on Sunday 30 December 2007, on the value of landscape and its effects on health. The newspaper's editorial that Sunday is attached. Aranjuez Declaration. 1st International Conference on the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes World Heritage [pdf 23 Kb] Document 07/01/2008 | Manifest of the 1st International Conference of the Alliance of Cultural Landscapes which took place at Aranjuez from 13 to 15 December 2007. This declaration is intended to emphasise the challenges in managing the assets declared as World Heritage by UNESCO. Document 03/12/2007 | Summary of the thesis by Diego Varga, directed by Josep Vila, of Girona University. The work analyses, quantifies and evaluates the changes in land use and cover suffered during the 20th century in the Hortmoier and Sant Aniol valleys, part of the Alta Garrotxa protected natural area. Document 08/11/2007 | A guide prepared by the Government of Quebec for the integration of windmills into the landscape on public lands. It offers guidelines on reducing the impact of wind farms on the landscape and proposes measures for their harmonisation. CQC: Countryside Quality Counts Document 20/09/2007 | Document in the context of the project Countryside Quality Counts, prepared by Natural England, DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and English Heritage. Using a series of indicators the study analyses the ways in which the character of the landscape in the United Kingdom is changing and the implications that this could have in the achievement of sustainable development. Results of the 2nd Landscape Mediterranean Award (Project PAYS.DOC) [pdf 410 Kb] Document 26/07/2007 | Project Good practice for Landscape, an EU-funded programme INTERREG IIIB MEDOCC. Sacred Hymalan Landscape (SHL) Strategic Planning [pdf 1362 Kb] Document 20/06/2007 | Strategic plan for preservation of the sacred landscape of the Himalaya, set up by the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation of the Government of Nepal in 2006. The document gives an approximation to the Himalayan landscapes and establishes the strategies to be followed with a view to making development of the area compatible with the integrity of its sacred landscapes, taking into account the preservation of biodiversity, cultural values and the improvement of subsistence. Infrastructure and landscape: roads [pdf 4972 Kb] Document 23/04/2007 | Document prepared by Ignacio Español to a commission from the Council of Europe and presented in Strasbourg on the occasion of the Meeting on "The European Landscape Convention", held on 22 and 23 March 2007. Urban sprawl in Europe - The ignored challenge Document 23/02/2007 | Report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Office for the Official Publications of the European Communities (OOPEC) on the phenomena of urban sprawl in Europe – its causes, its impact on the environment, the economy and society, and potential solutions. Saving tranquil places. How to project and promote a vital asset [pdf 2420 Kb] Document 15/01/2007 | Initiative of the entity Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) to calculate the tranquillity indicator in rural landscapes, based on frequency of visits, traffic passing through, light pollution and acoustic quality. Video 21/12/2006 | First Video Clip of the VerdCel music group from Valencia, prepared with video projections of the innovative show PaisViatge created from journeys and thoughts on and around landscape. Report on the protection of the European natural, architectural and cultural heritage in rural and island regions [pdf 161 Kb] Document 11/10/2006 | Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament (20/07/06).
Manifesto for a new territorial culture [pdf 83 Kb] Document 03/10/2006 | Manifesto calling for a new culture in town and country planning in Spain, supported initially by more than a hundred town and country planning experts and currently being considered by various academic institutions, professional associations and individuals with an interest in such matters. It was presented on 8 May at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. For an awareness of landscape. The contribution of the Act for the protection, management and planning of landscape [pdf 375 Kb] Article 04/07/2006 | Article by Joan Nogué, director of the Landscape Observatory, published in number 8/9 of the magazine Activitat Parlamentària (Parliamentary Activity) of the Ministry of Institutional Relations and Participation of the Government of Catalonia, in which he studies various aspects of landscape in Catalonia and the Landscape Act, and raises challenges for its application. Document 06/06/2006 | Extract from research work by Albert Llausàs, directed by Anna Ribas, presented at Girona University on October 2005. This work won the 2006 Lluís Casassas i Simó Prize given by the Catalan Geographical Society. Conclusions from the NORCAT European project: public administration of the landscape in Catalonia [pdf 677 Kb] Document 12/04/2006 | This is a European research project that analyses the context of Catalonia's landscape administration, with particular emphasis on the landscape policies fostered by the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and its implications for other spheres, particularly the environmental sphere. This study is part of a broader study on public administration in environmental fields in which the ICTA and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities of Bergen University (Norway) have taken part. The Vallbona Manifesto: for a Segarra - Garrigues Canal for the 21st Century [pdf 796 Kb] Document 01/03/2006 | This Manifesto, backed by a group of citizens, calls for rethinking the project for the Segarra - Garrigues Canal (Lleida, Catalonia) in order to preserve and add value to the landscape heritage associated with dry-farming land, to foster the rational use of water, and to make this project, which is of interest to society, economically viable. Signed in Vallbona de les Monges, on 29 May 2004. Document 13/02/2006 | Declaration promoted by the World Conservation Union (UICN) and the Fundació Territori i Paisatge. Pallars Sobirà (Catalan Pyrenees), 27th of October 2005. |
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