This edited volume reviews 20 years' worth of research under the European Landscape Convention. The authors from the research network UNISCAPE offer readers insights into their combined efforts to carry out and support the goals of a sustainable European landscape. 20 years after defining these original goals, the editors make landscape ecology and management, a cornerstone for the debate on a 21 st century Europe.

The numerous contributions cover the three major areas of Landscape Policy and Governance, Landscape Design and Time and Observing Landscape. The pan-European approach highlights the strength of international collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking.

This book offers the collected knowledge as a working tool for researchers, scholars and professionals in landscape ecology.

Summarizes 20 years' worth of research results under the European Landscape Convention Offers interdiscplinary research from numerous European regions Brings together landscape ecology and practical management aspects

Inhalt
Performing landscape.- Policies, landscape and politics.- Global landscape governance on the XXth anniversary of the European Landscape Convention.- Landscape Policy and Governance: an introduction.- Landscape planning policy as a measure of implementation of the European Landscape Convention.- Policy and governance challenges facing European rural landscapes.- Landscape Policies of Europe.- Landscape policy in Portugal. Where are we?.- A country through crisis and beyond: the case of the Greek landscape.- The ELC, a game changer in the Scottish policy discourse.- One territory, one plan, many authorities: the future to really protect the landscape.- The daily governance of the landscape: the contribution of the Local Landscape Commissions.- Enclosing the horizon: Land privileges and the right to landscape.- Landscape Observatory Vastra Gotaland & Balaton Ecomuseum A Swedish-Hungarian Interaction for Sustainable Landscape Management.- Landscape and public participation in Norwegianlocal planning an example of implementing the European Landscape Convention.- Implementing landscape policies by promoting sustainability, democracy, and participation. Awareness raising and landscape education in Trentino, Italy.- Common property in Europe: landscape design evolution over time.- Collaborative Governance for reviving Tiber Landscapes downstream of Rome.- Planning the adaptation of European Landscapes to climate change: the experience of the EIT CLIMATE- KIC AELCLIC Project.- The European Baykal- Regional development inspired the European Landscape Convention.- Twenty years of landscape policy and governance in Europe, and the way ahead.