A Step Forward
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The European Landscape Convention is an appeal to the collective intelligence. It
acknowledges the landscape as an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere: in urban areas and in the countryside, in degraded and high quality areas, in
areas recognised as being of outstanding beauty as well as everyday areas. It expresses
concern to achieve sustainable development based on a balanced and harmonious
relationship between social needs, economic activity and the environment.
Even if we do not see them directly and continuously, we know that underwater
landscapes are there, under our responsibility, ready to reveal themselves and fill
us with wonder. May this be sufficient to awaken our imagination and spur us into
action.
Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons
Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention
Head of the Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning
Division/Council of Europe
67075 Strasbourg Cedex France
Grand Témoin/Key Observer of the
Seminar “Paysages sous-marins”
2011, 29-31 March, Brest, FRANCE
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The European Landscape Convention is an appeal to the collective intelligence. It
acknowledges the landscape as an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere: in urban areas and in the countryside, in degraded and high quality areas, in
areas recognised as being of outstanding beauty as well as everyday areas. It expresses
concern to achieve sustainable development based on a balanced and harmonious
relationship between social needs, economic activity and the environment.
Even if we do not see them directly and continuously, we know that underwater
landscapes are there, under our responsibility, ready to reveal themselves and fill
us with wonder. May this be sufficient to awaken our imagination and spur us into
action.
Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons
Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention
Head of the Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning
Division/Council of Europe
67075 Strasbourg Cedex France
Grand Témoin/Key Observer of the
Seminar “Paysages sous-marins”
2011, 29-31 March, Brest, FRANCE