Landscape assessment: three case studies

Landscape assessment: three case studies

Alvaro Fernando Soba Giordano

The landscape assessments are tools of landscape analysis. They can characterize a landscape depending on certain natural and cultural characteristics, that make it distinct for another, and thattranscend the political and administrative boundaries. The landscape characterization products may be called such as “cartas de paisaje”, “catálogos de paisaje”, “cartografías de paisaje”, “landscape character assessments” Considering the value represented as inputs for planning and land management, this work provides an assessment of three landscapes of Uruguay. Is an exercise of conceptualization of the national landscape, from the recognition of its natural and cultural base, using the Landscape Character Assessment Guidance (Countryside Agency / Scottish Natural Heritage). In a complementary, this work use the theoretical and methodological basis of landscape ecology, raised by authors Forman and Godron, to understand the structure, functioning and changes in the landscape from an ecological perspective.

2012

Ecología del paisaje, Evaluación del carácter del paisaje, Paisaje, Territorio, caracter

10.20396/lobore.v6i1.17

Labor & Engenho

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology