El paisaje como nuevo paradigma de la sostenibilidad

Abstract

As a result of the excessive use and abuse of the idea of sustainable development in policy statements, debates and publicity, sustainability appears exhausted to promote the need of a change in collective attitudes. Landscape appears as a renewed argument to claim for an ethic approach to land and nature resources management. The European Convention for Landscape (2000) reinforces this role. Landscape art has traditionally worked in this double field of ethics and aesthetics and it is now working as a solid argument for social claims against abusive developments. Yet, the use of landscape in this sense presents no few problems as those related to its social confrontation and its public organization for management.