Council of Europe Landscape Convention

• Programme
• Speeches of the 2nd October 2012

Opening addresses

• Mr Sokratis ALEXIADIS, General Secretary, Regional Planning and Urban Development, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece
• Ms Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Representative of the Secretariat General of the Council of Europe, Head of the Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Spatial Planning Division of the Council of Europe, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, CEMAT
• Ms Polyxeni ZEIKOU, Director, General Secretariat of Regional Planning and Urban Development, Spatial Planning Division, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece
• Mr Nikolaos CHOURVOULIADIS, Advisor of the Region of Central Macedonia

Introductory statements

• Mr Elias BERIATOS, Chair of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of Europe Conference of Ministers respons ible for Spatial/Regional Planning (CEMAT)
• Ms Maria José FESTAS, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference for the European Landscape Convention, Vice-Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) and Representative of Portugal to the Committee of Senior Officials of the CEMAT
• Ms Anne-Marie Marie CHAVANON, Chair of the Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Committee of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe
• Mr Ilya YAROVOY, Professor, Architectural Institute of Moscow, on behalf of Mr Valery SUDARENKOV, Member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia
• Mr Thymio PAPAYANNIS (speech and powerpoint), President of the National Landscape Committee of Greece, Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA)
• Mr Anestis GOURGIOTIS, Urban Senior Official, Representative of Greece at the Committee of Senior Officials of the CEMAT, Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change

THE GREEK LANDSCAPES

• Understanding modern Greek landscapes
  Mr Costis HADJIMICHALIS (speech and powerpoint), Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens
• Landscape for society in times of change
  Ms Theano S. TERKENLI, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean

THEME I - USING LANDSCAPE AS AN APPROACH TO SPATIAL PLANNING

• Spatial planning and landscape (speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Florencio ZOIDO NARANJO, Director of the Centre for Landscape and Territory of Andalusia, Spain
• The post-productive rural landscape as a marker of ‘quality’ and ‘tradition’(speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Thanasis KIZOS, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Aegean, Greece
• Infrastructure, structuring of the territory and landscape (speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Ignacio ESPANOL ECHANIZ, Senior Lecturer in Landscape and Infrastructure Polytechnic University of Madrid

THEME II - INNOVATIVES TOOLS INCENTIVES AND PROJECTS: THE NATIONAL SPATIAL PLANING POLICIES

• From the Carbonia Project to the Sulcis-Iglesiente Project: The rehabilitation of the “foundation cities” and of the modern industrial landscapes(speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Salvatore CHERCHI, President of the Province of Carbonia Iglesias, Italy
• The experience of Carbonia, Landscape Award of the Council of Europe 2010-2011
  Mr Mauro ESU, Councillor, Chairman of Heritage and Urban Committee of Carbonia
• Human beings are geographical and sensitive
  Mr Yves LUGINBÜHL, Professor at the University of Paris, France
• Innovative tools for rural development (speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Régis AMBROISE, Ministry of Agriculture, Agroalimentary and Forestry, France
• Civil society and landscape
  Mr Dirk GOTZMAN, Director of Civilscape
  Mr Olaf KÜHNE, Institute for Sustainability, Saarland University

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL POLICIES AND DISCUSSION

Introduction

• Integrating the study of landscape in the spatial plans of Greece (speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Anestis GOURGIOTIS, Spatial-Urban Senior Official, Representative of Greece at the Committee of Senior Officials of the CEMAT and Ms Aphrodite SOROTOU, Head of Scientific Secretariat of the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA)

Belgium

Ms Mireille DECONINCK (speech and powerpoint), Officer, Departement of Regional Planning, General Directorate of Spatial planning, Housing and Heritage and of Energy, Public Service of Wallonia, Walloon Region

Ms Sarah de MEYER (speech and powerpoint), Policy Officer, Department of Spatial Planning, Housing and Immovable Heritage, Flemish Region

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ms Lamija ABDIJEVIC, Expert Adviser for Architectural Heritage with the Bureau for Protection of Monuments of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Civil Affairs

Ms Svetlana SILJEGOVIC, Expert Adviser for Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage with the Bureau for Protection of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of the Republic of Srpska, Ministry of Civil Affairs

Bulgaria

Ms Kapka PANTCHEVA (speech and powerpoint), Pr “Master Plan for Central Region of Bulgaria”

Ms Katinka MIHOVA (speech), Professor, Economics and Management of Landscape Architecture University of Forestry

Mr Rosen GURKOV, Landscape Architect

Croatia (speech and powerpoint)

Ms Gordana KOVAČEVIĆ, Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning

Ms Biserka DUMBOVIC-BILUSIC, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Culture

Czech Republic

Ms Hana MACHOVA (speech and powerpoint), Officer, Spatial Planning Department, Ministry for Regional Development

Mr Petr LEPESKA, Officer, Town and Country Planning Department, Ministry for Regional Development

Estonia

Ms Maila KUUSIK, Advisor, Spatial Planning Department, Ministry of the Interior

Finland (speech and powerpoint)

Mr Tapio HEIKKILÄ, Senior Advisor, Responsible for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of the Environment

Ms Tuija MIKKONEN, Senior Specialist, Ministry of the Environment

France

Ms Aurélie FRANCHI (speech and powerpoint), Policy Officer for Landscape, Directorate for Housing Urban Development and Landscapes, Directorate of Urban Planning and Quality of Life, Landscape and Publicity Office, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy

Rapporteur
Mr Audun MOFLAG, Former Member of the Committee of Senior Officials, Norway

• Programme
• Speeches of the 3rd October 2012

THEME III - LANDSCAPE, SPATIAL PLANNING AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

• Landscape: the role of the Ombudsman
  Mr Ion SAYAS, Deputy Ombudsman of Greece
• Landscape: a globalising approach
  Mr Bernard LASSUS, Landscape Architect, National Landscape Grand Prize, France
• Participation in spatial planning
  Mr Joseph SALAMON, Director of the Organisation of the Pole Space and Landscape, Cergy-Pontoise
• Landscape and civil society: towards new forms of participation
  Mr Pere SALA I MARTI, Coordinator of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia
• Public participation: integrating the past, present and future landscape (speech and powerpoint)
  Mr Alan LESLIE, Northlight Heritage, United Kingdom
  Mr Chris DALGLISH, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow
  Mr Kenny BROPHY, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow
  Mr Gavin MACGREGOR, Northlight Heritage, United Kingdom
• Rapporteur
  Mr Jean-Claude ROUARD, Specialist on rural development, former Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, France
• Mediterranean
  Mr Saverio MAESTRALI, Photographer

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL POLICIES AND DISCUSSION

Introduction

• The sea inside: inventing seascape strategies as urbanity generators of Thessaloniki in the age of crisis
  Mr Lois PAPADOPOULOS, Professor School of Architecture University of Thessaly

Hungary

Mr Gabor KISS, Senior Councillor, National Representative for the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of Rural Development

Italy

Ms Maria Maddalena ALESSANDRO (speech and powerpoint), Architect, Office of Landscape Quality and Preservation, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities

Mr Mauro AGNOLETTI, Coordinator of the Working Group Landscape – National Plan for Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry

Latvia

Ms Dace GRANTA (speech and powerpoint), Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Lithuania

Mrs Irma GRIGAITIENE (speech and powerpoint), Head of the Protected Areas, Ministry of Culture

Luxemburg

Mr Jean-Claude SINNER (speech and powerpoint), Councellor of governement 1st class, Department of spatial planning, Ministry of Sustainable development and infrastructures

Malta

Ms Anja DELIA, Senior Planning Officer, Malta Environment and Planning Authority

Moldova

Mr Serghei MUNTEANU, Division of Architecture, projections, urbanism and spatial planning, Ministry of Territorial development and Construction

Montenegro

Ms Sanja LJESKOVIC MITROVIC, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism

Rapporteur

• Mr Enrico BUERGI, Chair of the Jury of the Council of Europe Landscape Award, Former Chair of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, Switzerland

Norway

Ms Liv Kirstine MORTENSEN (speech and powerpoint), Senior Advisor, Department of Regional Planning, Ministry of the Environment

Poland

Ms Małgorzata OPECHOWSKA, Officer, Department for Nature Protection, General Directorate for Environmental Protection

Mr Marceij BORSA, Director of Bureau, Regional Bureau of Spatial Planning (WBU)

Serbia

Ms Biljana FILIPOVIC, Senior Advisor for International Cooperation, Ministry of Mining, Environment and Spatial Planning

Slovak Republic

Ms Ida REPASKA, State Advisor, Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development

Mr Tibor NEMETH, Head of the Unit of Spatial Planning, Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development

Spain

Ms Margarita ORTEGA, Former representative of Spain at the Committee of Senior Officials of the CEMAT and Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention

Sweden

Ms Anita BERGENSTRAHLE-LIND (speech and powerpoint), Deputy Head of Sustainable Management Department, Swedish National Heritage Board

Speech and powerpoint by Mr Leif GREN, Senior Advisor, Swedish National Heritage Board, Representative of Sweden for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention and Ms Cecilia ULFHIELM, Special Advisor, Swedish Forest Agency

Switzerland

Mr Andreas STALDER (speech and powerpoint), Senior Advisor, Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication, Federal Office of the Environment, Forestry and Landscape, Switzerland

Ukraine

Ms Anastasiia OLESCHENKO (speech and powerpoint), Institute “Dipromisto” – Tissa Project TICAD

Rapporteur

• Mr Jean-François SEGUIN, former President of the Conference of the Council of Europe for the European Landscape Convention

CLOSING SESSION

Conclusions

• Ms Maggie ROE, Professor of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom, Member of the Landscape Research Group
• Mr Patrice COLLIGNON, Director of the International Association Rurality, Environment, Development
• Mr Thymio PAPAYANNIS, President of the National Landscape Committee of Greece, Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA)

Concluding Remarks

• Mr Elias BERIATOS, Chair of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responible for Spatial/Regional Planning (CEMAT)
• Ms Maria José FESTAS, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference for the European Landscape Convention, Vice-Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) and Representative of Portugal to the Committee of Senior Officials of the CEMAT
• Ms Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Executive Secretary of the CEMAT and European Landscape Convention, Head of Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning Division of the Council of Europe

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Armenia

Ms Ruzan ALAVERDYAN, Deputy Minister of Urban Development

The Umbria Landscape Charter

Ms Anna DI BENE, Representative of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities in the Region of Umbria, Italy