Landscape sensitivity and territorial management
In France, the Landscape Law (1993) encourages local authorities to target the conservation and development of landscapes in their planning policies. How can public policies reconcile a sensitive perception of landscapes with the sort of territorial scale involved in their implementation? At various territorial scales (in this case the geographical setting of the Pays de la Loire), a concern for landscape can take different directions. But these new scales in landscape planning create problems for their managers: the territorial dimension of the landscape management project in question also induces conflicts between the various participants defending the perceptions of landscapes that they hold as their own and transform into instruments of their views, interests and targets.