The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of Participation [Hardcover]

This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004. The book examines both the theory of participation and what lessons can be learnt from specific European examples. It explores in what manner and to what extent the provisions for participation in the European Landscape Convention have been followed up and implemented. It also presents and compares different experiences of participation in selected countries from northern, southern, eastern and western Europe, and provides a critical examination of public participation in practice. However, while the books focus is necessarily on Europe, many of the conclusions drawn are of global relevance.The book provides a valuable reference for researchers and advanced students in landscape policies and management, as well as for professionals and others interested in land-use planning and environmental management.Preface.- Contributing authors.- Introduction.- The issue of public participation in the European Landscape Convention, Michael Jones and Marie Stenseke.- Part I: Implementing participation.- European landscape and participation  rhetoric or reality?, Michael Jones.- The Dutch approach: Public participation and the role of NGOs and local authorities in the protection, management and development of cultural landscapes in the Netherlands, Henk Baas, Bert Groenewoudt, and Edwin Raap.- The participatory dimension in nature conservation processes: Examples of ideology and practice from Norway, Karoline Daugstad.- The implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Poland; Anna Majchrowska.- 6. Landscape regulation in regional territorial planning: A view from Spain; Berezi Elorrieta and Dolores S?nchez-Aguilera.- 7. In search of the Greek landscape: A cultural geography, Theano S. Terkenli.- Part II: Partl£\