landscape catalogues

The Act 8/2005 of 8th of June for protection, management and planning of the landscape in Catalonia creates the Landscape Catalogue as a new instrument for the introduction of landscape targets into town and country planning and sectorial policies in Catalonia, and in this way adopts the principles and strategies of action established in the European Landscape Convention promoted by the Council of Europe.

In other words, the landscape catalogues are the tools which enable us to know what our landscape is and what values it has, which factors explain why we have a certain type of landscape and not another, how our landscape evolves with regard to the current financial, social and environmental dynamics and, finally, they define what type of landscape we want and how we can achieve it.

The landscape catalogues, therefore, supply information of great interest on all the Catalan landscapes and in this way contribute to the definition and application of a new landscape policyin Catalonia.

APPLICATION AREA

The Landscape Catalogues are conceived principally as useful tools for the planning and management of the landscape from the town and country planning perspective. This is why their territorial extent corresponds to each of the regions of application of the territorial zoning plans, coinciding with the seven regions in which the future administrative and political structure of Catalonia will be organised:

Alt Pirineu i Aran Camp de Tarragona Comarques Centrals Comarques Gironines Terres de Lleida Regió Metropolitana de Barcelona Terres de l’Ebre