Landscape and land use

Rural space is no longer equivalent with agricultural space. The territorial dimension has become a cornerstone in various EU policy reforms since the 1990s. Also landscape has emerged as a significant dimension for management, policy and research. The workshops deal with different dimensions of the coevolution of landscape and farming systems, including how rural space is constituted and valorized and how landscape forms the context for learning processes.

WS 5.1: The landscape as the basis for integrating different levels of management, policy making and other dimensions of the rural

WS 5.2: European realities – Assymetric rural development and revalorization of marginal lands in Europe

WS 5.3: Research-Education-Action platform for land management and territorial development