A la recherche d'indicateurs pour mesurer la qualité paysagère

The European Landscape Convention stresses that “the landscape has an important public interest role in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, and constitutes a resource favourable to economic activity”. Among other recommendations, signatory countries are committed to assessing their landscapes, “taking into account the particular values assigned to them by the interested parties and the population concerned” (Council of Europe 2000). However, assessing landscapes out of a specific framework is not easy due to the multiple functions that landscapes perform. The paper presents the results of a survey among forty-two landscape experts from Wallonia and Romania. They had to specify their level of agreement on fifty-two Likert items regarding landscape quality indicators.