Christos POLYKRETIS, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) - Foundation for Research and Technology — Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Dimitris ALEXAKIS, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) - Foundation for Research and Technology — Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Karl DONERT, European Association of Geographers, Belgium
Luc ZWARTJES, Ghent University Geography Department, Belgium
Landscape is both a physical reality and the representation that we make of it. It is the face of a land with all its natural and anthropological elements and, at the same time, the feelings and emotions that it arouses in us when we see it. Therefor the European Landscape Convention indicates that assessment of all these different dimensions that exist in landscapes should be considered by public authorities while adopting policies and measures at local, regional, national and international level for protecting, managing and planning landscapes throughout Europe.
With this situation in mind, GEOLAND – an Erasmus+ KA2 Higher Education project - focuses on NATURA 2000 sites, with as goal to establish a learning path for the HE students and professors in order to apply their geospatial analysis knowledge in Landscape monitoring and protection, using digital skills like public participation GIS, and low-cost geoinformatic. In particular the main aim of the project is to develop a web based GIS platform where numerous geospatial data may be uploaded, analyzed and students' opinion about
landscape will be asked through questionnaires and crowdsourcing.
The project will thus provide the opportunity to students and professors, being interested in definition and implementation of landscape policies, to play an active part in setting sustainability indicators of desirable landscape quality objectives (LQOs). In addition, GEOLAND will attempt to train the future employees to identify and summarize the environmental and cultural stratification in the examined landscapes through a sophisticated GIS oriented Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) methodology. . In this direction, the project will develop a new methodological framework for monitoring Landscape tailored to the needs of the new digital era, safeguarding thus the inclusive nature of learning opportunities. Moreover, the project will provide training content matching the digital education needs.
Mots clés : landscape conservation|Natura 2000|landscape policy|Public participation GIS|Landscape Character Assessment
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