Travelling in the eastern Mediterranean with landscape character assessment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Abu Jaber ◽  
Y. Abunnasr ◽  
A. Abu Yahya ◽  
N. Boulad ◽  
O. Christou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Landscape Character

scholarly journals Landscape typology in Czechia and abroad: State of the art, methods and theoretical basis

Geografie ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Lipský ◽  
Dušan Romportl
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Intensive Agriculture ◽  
European Landscape Convention ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Landscape Character

The main goal of this paper is to introduce the importance of landscape typology in present times when many landscapes are exposed to dynamic human impacts such as land use changes, urbanization, intensive agriculture, forestry or industrialization. Different approaches to landscape typology in Czechia and other European countries as well as relations of landscape typology to landscape character assessment and the European Landscape Convention are discussed. A requirement of a new exact and applicable landscape typology is a great challenge for Czech geographers.

scholarly journals Wilderness and aesthetic values in the Antarctic

Polar Record ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (203) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamunde Codling
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
Landscape Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Description ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

AbstractIn Article 3 of the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties committed themselves to ‘the protection of the Antarctic environment…and the intrinsic value of Antarctica, including its wilderness and aesthetic values.’ The phraseology of the Protocol requires clarification. ‘Wilderness and aesthetic values’ links two disparate concepts, best handled by separation. Annex V, Article 3, of the Protocol covers many topics, and their assessment must be by a composite of frameworks specifically designed for the different purposes set out in the Annex.A working definition of wilderness in the Antarctic is suggested: ‘Any part of the Antarctic in which neither permanent habitation nor any other permanent evidence of present or past human presence is visible.’ Using this, a very high proportion of the continent will be recognised as having wilderness status. The phrase ‘aesthetic values’ should be seen as part of a wider process—Landscape Character Assessment—that is at present unknown to most in the Antarctic community. It is based on the principle of objective description and classification of landscape character. This basic characterisation can then be put to different uses, one of which may be to make more subjective judgements or evaluations that lead to area designations.

scholarly journals Visual Capacity Assessment of the Open Landscape in Terms of Protection and Shaping: Case Study of a Village in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6319
Author(s):  
Anna Górka
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Landscape Character ◽  
The Village

This article describes the methodology and results of research on landscape visual capacity. The aim of the project was to develop a tool that would support planning and design decisions at the level of communal management in rural areas in Poland through systematic application of visual criteria. Their importance in the protection, management and shaping of space is underlined by the document produced at the European Landscape Convention of 2000 (ELC). To date, ELC recommendations have not been fully implemented in Poland. The author of the study used the methods of the Krakow School of Landscape Architecture in assessing cultural landscapes and referred to the assumptions of the British Landscape Character Assessment (LCA). The analysis was based on the results of a landscape identification conducted in a part of the Cekcyn commune. The assessment of visual capacity was conducted for the village of Nowy Sumin, located in that commune. The effect of the study is the classification of open landscapes with respect to the assessment of visual changes resulting from potential residential development. The results obtained prompt the conclusion that the applied method can effectively support local spatial planning as it takes national conditions into account.

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