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Special Issue: 25 years European Landscape Convention
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Abstract

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) promotes actions to maintain or enhance the quality of European landscapes. Agricultural landscapes cover 38% of European land and face multiple spatial challenges, creating public concerns about their future quality. This also applies to the Netherlands, a country that signed the ELC and developed multiple policies to maintain and enhance spatial quality of landscapes. However, spatial quality can be an ambiguous concept, leading to miscommunication between stakeholders involved in the protection, management and planning of agricultural landscapes. To contribute to the communication of spatial quality, this literature review identified 18 grouped into four of spatial quality: and . Based on these , we found that spatial quality is understood either as (1) only, (2) only, (3) the combination of and , and (4) the combination of all four . The consideration of all four allows the identification of synergies and trade-offs across spatial quality objectives, which is essential for the development of high quality agricultural landscapes.

© Michiel Bakx, Amanda Krijgsman, Tia Hermans & Sanda Lenzholzer
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