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contents of the landscape catalogues

Article 11 of the Act for the protection, management and planning of the landscape in Catalonia establishes what must be the minimum contents to be incorporated into the seven landscape catalogues:

An inventory of the landscape values present in the relevant area.

A list of the activities and processes affecting or which have affected in the most widely known way the configuration of the present landscape.

Signalling of the main routes and areas from which the landscape is perceived.

Definition of the units of landscape, understood as areas structurally, functionally and/or visually coherent, which may be subject to a differentiated regime of protection, management or planning in the terms established in article 6.

Definition of the landscape quality targets for each landscape unit. These targets must express the aspirations of the group with regard to the landscape characteristics of their environment.

The proposal of measures and actions needed to achieve the landscape quality targets.

These six points are developed through the following material:

Written memorandum

Technical document which the Observatori del Paisatge will deliver to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia.

[Contents of the written memorandum]

Maps

The maps to be prepared are:

» Map of landscape units and special attention landscapes

» Map of visibilities and inter-visibilities from the main points and routes of observation of the landscape

» Map of ecological landscape values

» Map of aesthetic landscape values

» Map of historical values

» Map of productives values

» Map of social values

» Map of religious and spiritual values

» Map of symbolic and identifying values

» Maps of evaluation of the landscape

» Maps of landscape quality targets by landscape units

Inventory of landscape agents

Database with information for updating and consultation on the principal agents (authorities, groups, universities, etc.) involved in the protection, management and planning of the landscape in Catalonia. Having prepared the seven landscape catalogues, the inventories will be integrated into one and will form the Inventory of landscape agents in Catalonia, and will be able to be consulted through the Observatori website.

Photographic archive

Database with all the photographs taken during the process of preparation of the Landscape Catalogue, duly classified by landscape units, as well as other criteria. The photographs will become the property of the Observatori del Paisatge and will form the Photographic archive of the landscapes of Catalonia.

All the content of the landscape catalogues will be available in this web when the Ministry of Public Works and Town and County Planning has given initial approval and they are submitted to public information. At the present time, you can consult the content of the Landscape Catalogue of Terres de Lleida.

Note: “Article 6. Type of actions over landscape. / 6.1 Public actions carried out on the landscape have to be directed to its protection, management and ordination. / 6.2 Actions of protection of the landscape are those directed to the preservation and maintenance of the significant aspects and characteristics of a landscape, justified by its values, which emerge from its natural configuration and/or from human intervention. / 6.3 Actions of management of the landscape are those directed to guiding and harmonising the transformations caused by the social, economic and environmental processes. / 6.4 Actions of ordination of the landscape are those which present a particularly accentuated prospective character, directed to maintaining, restoring, improving or modifying landscapes.”