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Landscape in Participatory Processes: Tools for Stimulating Debate on Landscape Issues?

A Conceptual and Methodological Reflection from Research-Action Projects in France

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This chapter discusses the advantages and limits of different tools in participatory processes regarding landscape projects. It presents a brief theoretical review of the relations between landscape policies and landscape concepts by focusing on the French situation. Four study projects concerning local participatory planning conducted by the authors have provided observations on the ways several techniques of landscape representations can be used in order to facilitate the expression of landscape preferences and aspirations. By revisiting the main methodologies and results obtained in these projects, the chapter builds a functional typology of representation techniques for supporting landscape mediation. This typology is based on a series of distinctions: visual and literary media; descriptive, analytic and synthetic techniques; and views ‘from the top’ and ‘from the inside’. The final part of the chapter is devoted to a general discussion of two main topics: the opposition between geo-referenced and ego-referenced space, and the question of the visualization of cultural landscapes.

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  1. Clermont University & UMR Metafort, VetAgro Sup, F-63370, Lempdes, France

    Yves Michelin

  2. University of Lyon & CNRS UMR EVS, F–42023, Saint–Etienne, France

    Thierry Joliveau

  3. Clermont University and UMR Metafort Agro Paris Tech, BP 50085, F–63172, Aubière, France

    Claire Planchat-Héry

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    Marie Stenseke

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Michelin, Y., Joliveau, T., Planchat-Héry, C. (2011). Landscape in Participatory Processes: Tools for Stimulating Debate on Landscape Issues?. In: Jones, M., Stenseke, M. (eds) The European Landscape Convention. Landscape Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9932-7_8

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