The Integration of Landscape into Land Use Planning Policy in Relation to the New European Landscape Convention

Design and Initial Validation of a Questionnaire on Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions of the Landscape

“…Following the ELC's postulates, the signatory countries are to put in place measures for managing and organising the landscape and educating in this subject [6][7][8]. As far as Spain is specifically concerned, schemes have been rolled out to include the population at large in these processes [5] and the landscape has a noticeably greater presence as curricular content in basic education [13].…”

“…This was based on a series of variables centred around the definition of the term landscape (as provided by the ELC), for subsequently identifying whether the subjects had any understanding of the features (units) that make up the landscape and their influence on its development or dynamism. The ELC's definition was used because there are numerous scholars that consider it to be both all-inclusive and covering a broad spectrum that groups together all the landscape's features, whether anthropic or natural [6,[55][56][57][58], and which includes educational considerations by linking landscape and society through perception [5,59]. What is more, there was also a variable that focused exclusively on the ELC, thereby seeking to discover whether the students were familiar with this convention.…”

“…The ELC's articles provide, among other aspects, common rules to ensure that all the countries involved have the same point of departure regarding the treatment of the landscape [5]. A series of measures are proposed to enable countries to design and develop the necessary measures for managing and organising it [6,7] and educating people accordingly [8]. In addition, the ELC seeks to foster a network of shared experiences across countries with a view to boosting those teaching and management techniques that are providing the best results [3,4].…”

“…What is more, the ELC ensures that each country has the freedom required to adapt its decision-making process according to its own idiosyncrasies and characteristics [3], thereby catering for the proposal of measures suited to social and territorial requirements [3,7]. The ELC is designed to cover all matters involving the landscape [6], which means it does not focus solely on the management and organisation of landscape resources or on territorial features with an impact upon a given landscape [7], as it also considers that landscape teaching and education from early schooling onwards is a step that will help to raise awareness about it [8]. At the same time, it proposes training professionals to acquire the right skills for managing and teaching about the landscape [8,9].…”

Sustainable energy technologies for the Global South: challenges and solutions toward achieving SDG 7

“…3 This topic has been extensively discussed over the last decade, leading to international treaties, conventions, and so forth. 4 The United Nations has formulated the “2030 Agenda”, which proposes 17 different “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) to radically reformulate the current development status-quo. The aim is to migrate towards a truly sustainable praxis by 2030, which would address the risks associated with anthropogenic climate change.…”