Landscape European Convention considers landscape an important part of quality of life for people everywhere and its protection, management and planning entail rights and responsibilities for everyone. In this sense, landscape planning should go beyond technician approaches or legal frameworks to also involve people in the processes. This raises the question of using the results from scientific knowledge develo...
A criação da RRN, cujo programa específico foi aprovado por Decisão da Comissão de 3 de Dezembro de 2009, veio introduzir um espaço de debate alargado e uma plataforma de partilha e divulgação de conhecimento e informação entre as organizações públicas e privadas direta e indiretamente ligadas ao desenvolvimento rural. O programa da RRN está intimamente ligado aos programas de desenvolvimento rural já que todos...
The rural development policy community is calling for new transdisciplinary approaches to convey public preferences into meaningful measures for assessing landscape capacity to provide public goods. Some of the public goods which rural landscapes provide relate to landscape appreciation which reflects people’s preferences for particular features in a given landscape or certain geographic unit. Assessing landsca...
This paper presents an expedite method to upscale land cover pattern preferences as expressed by tourists based on landscape metrics as indicators. Ten preferred land cover patterns previously considered in the Landscape Preferences Spatial Framework (LPSF) (Ribeiro et al, 2013) were searched and evaluated over the study area (Alentejo, Portugal) using PLAND (% of landscape of each land cover) maps built with F...
This paper explores which physical landscape components relate to subjective landscape dimensions. The ways in which people describe their surrounding cultural landscape was analyzed through an assessment of their representations of it. A special focus was placed on assessing the role of land cover as a means to communicate landscape meanings regarding a specific geographical region. The methodological framewor...
This paper presents an innovative methodological framework – Landscape Preferences Spatial Framework (LPSF) – which is able to translate landscape preferences, as expressed by various users, concerning possible land cover pattern compositions into land cover pattern preference maps. The innovative potential of the contribution lies in the exploration of a comprehensive methodical framework that facilitates the ...
The goal of this paper is to define, assess and geographically delimitate the public goods related to amenity and recreation provided by the agriculture and agro-forestry land covers in the context of the Alentejo landscape in Southern Portugal. Assessing and mapping the recreational public goods rural landscapes are able to provide can be dealt with at different spatial scales, e.g. from the European to the lo...
In recent decades, rural Europe has experienced major transitions, impelled by multiple drivers at varying scales, leading to increasingly differentiated modes of rural occupance. There is a need to monitor the multiple forces driving these transitions, so as to ensure that rural support and development policies are well targeted. In this paper, we develop a methodology which recognizes and regionalizes the thr...
The rural development policy community is calling for new transdisciplinary approaches to convey meaningful measures (e.g. indicator sets, indices) for assessing High Nature Value farming systems at different spatial scales (IEEP, 2009). At broader spatial scales there has been huge efforts for example by IRENA (Indicator Reporting on the Integration of Environmental Concerns into Agriculture Policy) in develop...
The symposium will highlight the importance of bridging indicators across scales so that local scale assessments can inform policy making at broader scales. It will present the state of the art in methodological approaches for upscaling and downscaling assessments namely of social indicators and discuss future methodological and conceptual research needs. Most studies on social indicators address analysis at a ...
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