Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mainstreaming landscape -- a decade after the European Landscape Convention; PART 1 New ideas of landscape; 1 How and why was the European Landscape Convention conceived?; 2 From public parks to urban green-structures; 3 Transdisciplinary landscapes: Towards a model for integrated regional planning and community development; 4 The European Landscape Convention's relevance to blue-green structure planning; 5 Landscape as product or process?; PART 2 New methods in landscape practices
6 Landscape assessments as imaginative (poetic) landscape narratives: Contemporary pastorals7 Analysing the landscape potential in everyday areas; 8 How wide is the border? Mapping the border between the city and the urban forest as a zone for outdoor recreation; 9 Regional landscape characterisation in Sweden: Bridging fields of competence in place; PART 3 Democratising landscape; 10 The right to landscape and the argument for the significance of implementation of the European Landscape Convention; 11 Landscape democracy and participation in a European perspective
12 Addressing participatory challenges for sustainable landscapesPART 4 Mainstreaming landscape; 13 The European Landscape Convention today: Landscape in languages and laws; 14 Swiss landscape policy from the European Landscape Convention perspective: Experiences and challenges; 15 Snæfellsnes Regional Park in the light of the European Landscape Convention; 16 The European Landscape Convention in landscape architecture education; PART 5 Conclusion; 17 Prospects for the European Landscape Convention; Index; Plates