Reframing the Relationship between People and Place
The Manifesto on the Future of the European Landscape was successfully launched at the UNISCAPE Conference “Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape – one year after” in Florence, Italy. ECLAS was involved in the stakeholder consultation during the development phase of this document.
20 years ago, the European Landscape Convention (Florence 2000) saw the potential of a fully integrated landscape perspective to contribute to a more sustainable relationship between society and environment based on the recognition of mutual co-dependency.
Since the year 2000, new challenges and opportunities have entered the scene. Concerns around climate change, food and energy security, wellbeing, public health (e.g., pandemics), biodiversity loss, globalization, to mention but a few, are now central to societal and political agendas. On the other hand, systems thinking has expanded our possibilities to understand and take advantage of the synergic connections between the cultural, ecological, social, economic and perceptual dimensions of the landscape.
The Manifesto will soon also be available on a special page on the UNISCAPE website. This will also be the central point of information on the follow-up activities, events and round table debates.
