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Улога планирања предела у примени Европске конвенције и пределима
The role of landscape planning in European landscape convention implementation

Author(s): Nevena Vasiljević
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Српско географско друштво
Keywords: The European Landscape Convention; ratification of The European Landscape Convention in Serbia; landscape planning; landscape plan; spatial planning; legal act

Summary/Abstract: The most important recent policy initiative concerning quality and diversity, as well as natural and cultural landscape's values within all Europe is European Landscape Convention. The Convention was adopted by Council of Europe's Community of Ministers on 20th October 2000., in Firenze, Italy. The main goal of the Convention is protection, planning and management of the landscape as important part of the quality of life for people living everywhere: in urban areas and in countryside, in degraded areas as well as in the areas with high quality and those recognized as being of outstanding beauty. Serbia has singed Convention on 21 of September 2007. Diversity and quality, the cultural and natural values linked to European landscapes are part of Europe's common heritage, and it is important to co-operate towards its protection, management and planning According to explored international experiences, landscape plan, with its known methodology, is recognized as the most suitable tool in the most Countries which have already implemented European Landscape Convention. As to situation in Serbia, landscape planning is not treated in adequate or appropriate way within system of spatial planning. On the basis of the recent European experiences regarding The European Landscape Convention, the paper will underline the inevitability of landscape planning integration into the spatial planning system at the national, regional and city level, in Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 88/2008
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 51-60
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian