Regional Planning for Linking Parks and Landscape: Innovative Issues

Since 2000, the emerging international indications (new paradigms relating to the protected areas, the European Landscape Convention, the socio-ecological approach of resilience) have expanded the relationship between protected areas and landscape. The paper reflects on conceptual innovations with reference to the methodological approach of some countries: the assessment of the landscape in the United Kingdom as a tool for defining policies and plans capable of integrating and harmonizing the development of human societies with the conservation of ecological and landscape stability and the territorial enhancement policies in the Netherlands that promote territorial development starting from nature and the landscape.