Landscape Cycles have emerged with the main aim of enhancing the knowledge and awareness of the public in landscape matters and also to press forward expeditiously in the realm of dissemination and academic training. With a duration of two years, each cycle constitutes a place for reflecting on and discussing landscape issues and different ways of tackling its overall management, a space for exchanging ideas and cooperating in academic-scientific, technical, professional, political and social fields.
The Global Change concept is ever more widely accepted, both in the scientific world and in international organisations, as a set of environmental changes affected by human activities, with special reference to those processes that determine the operation of the Earth system. The relationship between global biophysical changes and the economic and social systems that induce these cannot, therefore, be ignored.
This first cycle sets out to understand and seek responses to Global Change, to this new paradigm that confronts us, and to accept it as a challenge, as a way forward full of economic opportunities and possibilities for social progress.
We need to determine the role of today’s society with regard to landscape in general and, in particular, concerning the protection and restoration of those landscapes that most require our attention. The key of the question lies in the conception of future landscapes as living regions, as vital cycles and not as restrictions to growth, but as a positive framework for sensitive and intelligent development. The landscape of the future will be the result of the decisions we take today.
Program 2010 2011 and program july.
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