Landscape : an exercise in democracy

Opening ceremony - Anne-Marie CHAVANON

 The Committee actively participated in the 13th Meeting of the Council of Europe Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, which was held in Cetinje, Montenegro, on 2-3 October 2013.
The main theme of the meeting was: "Territories of the future: landscape identification and assessment, an exercise in democracy."

Anne-Marie CHAVANON, president of the Committee was pleased, on behalf of NGOs, that these workshops be held "in a country with multiple identities: cultural, religious, ethnic and certainly landscape identities crossing five borders, uniting Montenegro to its neighbours (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania), a country of extreme complexity, which wanted to place in the wake but also the prospect of Europe "

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Luc-Emile BOUCHE-FLORIN (EUC)

Luc-Emile Bouche-Florin, Honorary President of the NGO, presented the landscape dimension and the role of civil society in the Charter of European urban planning of the European Council of Town Planners (CEU)

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Dirk GOTZMAN ( Civilscape)

Dirk Gotzman, director of the NGO Civilscape presented the action taken by a group of NGO  named "Alliance " to associate the European Landscape Convention in the European Year of citizen

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Anne-Marie CHAVANON (IFHP)

While the European Landscape Convention considers the landscape, "as perceived by the people," the Aarhus Convention calls understandable information at a time when the project is still reversible, most of the time, the presentation of highly technical projects does not allow this exercise in democracy. New technologies have to be promoted at all levels.

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