Abstract

The past decade has seen an increased interest in approaches for the identification and assessment of landscapes, which has been, in part, a response to the European Landscape Convention (ELC). In this article, we review landscape physiognomy, an important component of the Polish approach to the assessment and identification of its landscape. We address the relevance of physiognomy both in relation to the ELC and to the landscape character assessments approach, and then explore the theoretical basis of landscape physiognomic structure. We also expand the existing classification of landscape interiors; this is followed by combining three approaches: (1) physical geography in the field of comprehensive classification of natural landscapes; (2) landscape ecology studies on the spatial structure of land cover patches against the landscape matrix' and (3) the theory of landscape interiors. Presented ideas create the outline of the concept of landscape's physiognomic structure.

Keywords

Landscape theory; landscape physiognomy; landscape interior; landscape classification; European Landscape Convention

Published in

Landscape Research
2018, Volume: 43, number: 3, pages: 410-427

SLU Authors

• Butler, Andrew

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture
Ecology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2017.1314454

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/81297