Evaluating Landscape. Tools, Principles and Methods

The aim of the paper is to show the need of innovation in the landscape policies starting from the European Landscape Convention (2000), that promotes a changeover from conservation policies to a management approach for planning new landscapes. This view focuses on the following questions: the need to define a new methodological approach to evaluate and promote landscape values; the need to define a process of shared landscape values. Starting from the recent implementation in some European Countries, this work proposes the following topics: an alternative definition of the landscape; the role of the landscape evaluation; the identification of different typologies of values involved.