Nature Policies and Landscape Policies, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015 Towards an Alliance Urban and Landscape Perspectives Series, Vol. 18

The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a crucial role, bridging nature and culture, fostering more integrated approaches to nature conservation and stimulating the active participation of local communities.

The book gathers reflections, researches and experiences developed on an international level on this subject by experts coming from different international contexts (Europe, U.S.A.), various disciplinary backgrounds (geographers, planners, biologists, historians, jurists, economists, etc.) and several institutional bodies (Universities, administrative bodies, international organizations such as IUCN, EUROPARC Federation, UNESCO, etc.). The overall reflections gathered in the book - which is divided in three main sections: regulations and institutional frameworks, policies, actions and tools - combine to suggest innovative visions about the relationships between nature policies and landscape policies.

Introduction.- Part I: New Paradigms.- Nature Conservation and Landscapes: An Introduction to the Issues.- Bringing Together Nature and Culture: Integrating a Landscape Approach in Protected Areas Policy and Practice.-The Place of Protected Areas in the European Landscape: A EUROPARC Federation Perspective.- From Park Centric Conservation to Whole Landscape Conservation in the USA.- Ecological Functions, Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation.- A Territorial Contradiction.- Legal Frameworks for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection.- Beyond Gardens and Nature Reserves: Contemporaneous Landscapes.- From the Territory to the Landscape: The Image as a Tool for Discovery.- Part II: From Nature to Landscape and Back.- Biosphere Reserves and Protected Areas: A Liaison Dangereuse or a Mutually Beneficial Relationship?.- Connecting the Alpine Protected Areas in a Wide Ecological Infrastructure. Opportunities from a Legal Point of View.- Protected Areas, Natura 2000 Sites and Landscape. Divergent Policies on Converging Values.- Regional Planning for Linking Parks and Landscape: Innovative Issues.- Landscape and Protected Natural areas. Laws and Policies in Italy.- Evolution of Concepts and Tools for Landscape Protection and Nature Conservation.- Nature Conservation in the Urban Landscape Planning.- Protection of Peri-urban Agricultural Landscapes: Vegas and Deltas in Andalucía.- Linking Landscape Protection and Nature Conservation. Switzerland’s Experience with Protected Mire Landscapes.- Putting the Park-Landscape Alliance to the Test: Protected Landscapes as a Proving Ground.- Participatory Planning Tools for Ecotourism in Protected Areas of Morocco and Tunisia: A First Experience.- Tourism and Conservation in Protected Areas: An Economic Perspective.- Participation and Regional Governance: A Crucial Research Perspective on Protected Areas Policies.- Old and New Conservation Strategies: From Parks to Land Stewardship.- Between Nature andLandscape: The Role of Community Towards an Active Conservation in Protected Areas.- The Contractual Communities Contribution to Cultural and Natural Resource Management.- The Concept of Limits in Landscape Planning and Design.- Landscape and Ecosystem Approach to Biodiversity Conservation.- Biodiversity and Landscape Policies: Towards an Integration? A European Overview.- From P-Arks to P-Hubs: Moving from the Idea of the Protected Areas as Noah’s Arks to the Concept of Parks as Places of Meeting and Sharing (hubs) of Wider and More Efficient Frameworks.- Landscape Policies and Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation. The Experience of the Arco Latino European Landscape Observatory.- Cross-cutting Issues in Treating the Fragmentation of Ecosystems and Landscapes.- Multi-scalar and Inter-sectorial Strategies for Environment and Landscape.- Urban Landscapes and Nature in Planning and Spatial Strategies.- Integrated Planning for Landscape Protection and Biodiversity Conservation.- An Assessment of the Role of Protected Landscapes in Conserving Biodiversity in Europe.- Lessons Learned from U.S. Experience with Regional Landscape Governance: Implications for Conservation and Protected Areas.- Park, Perception, Web. Visual Preferences on Digital Native Urban Parks as a Tool for Investigating Urban Landscape Perception in Europe.- Landscape Scenic Values: Protection and Management from a Spatial-planning Perspective.- European Cultural Routes: A Tool for Landscape Enhancement.- Economic Valuation of Landscape at Risk: A Critical Review.- Towards an Integrated Economic Assessment of Landscape.- Protected Areas: Opportunities for Decentralized Financial Mechanisms?.- Part III: Experiences and Practices.-The Langhe Landscape Changes.- Cultural Landscape and Royal Historical System in Piedmont Region.- Regional Management Tools at Local Level: The Po and Orba Regional River Park.-The Landscapes of the Portofino Nature Regional Park.- The Alpi Liguri Nature Regional Park.- Towardsthe Park of Florence Hills.- Protected Area Planning, Institution and Management in Apulia Region: The Lama San Giorgio Nature Regional Park.- The Environmental Issue in Sicily.- The Enhancement of Historical Landscape. The Grange in Southern Europe.- Nature, Landscape, Energy: The Energy Masterplan of Emilia-Romagna Po Delta Regional Park.- How to Manage Conflicts Between Resources Exploitation and Identity Values. The Agri Valley Amid Oil Supply and the Lucanian Apennines National Park.- Planning and Management in the Otranto-Leuca Nature Park: Integration of Approaches for an Active Conservation.- A Regional Planning for Protected Areas Sustainable Development in the Mercantour and Maritime Alps.

Roberto Gambino formerly Full Professor in Town and Regional Planning at the Politecnico di Torino (DIST), Italy, is Emeritus Professor.

Attilia Peano formerly Full Professor in Town and Regional Planning at the Politecnico di Torino (DIST), Italy.