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...