Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment: Current Approaches to Characterisation and Assessment

ISBN-13: 9781138803886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 294 str.

Graham Fairclough; Ingrid Sarlov Herlin; Carys Swanwick

Opis

This multi-authored book by senior practioners and researchers provides the first international overview of landscape character approaches for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers.

During the past three decades the idea of landscape has moved from a relatively straightforward, if narrow, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape s character as the sum of all its parts, as a complex whole that through human perception transcends its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques are therefore needed to assess and utilise this idea of landscape character.

The two main methods, Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC), which were applied first in the UK, have become a springboard for characterisation in the rest of Europe and beyond. This book explores why large differences exist in the various approaches taken, the extent to which disciplinary or cultural variances in different regions affect the approach to land management and landscape planning, as well as highlighting areas for reciprocal learning and knowledge transfer.

The contributors focus on approaches in those regions most advanced in landscape characterisation - Sweden, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Iberia, France, Cyprus, UK and the Netherlands. They also address why regions beyond Europe, such as North America and New Zealand, have not yet embraced these methods of assessment, and look to the future of character assessment and the impacts it may have on landscape practice.

This book has an introductory price of 125/$205 which will last until 3 months after publication - after this time it will revert to 140/$225."