ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The text analyses an experience in territorial development in a mountain area founded on knowledge of the landscape and its valorisation in the framework of a conceptual, methodological and strategic opening up of the classic notion of heritage and the renewed sense of landscape advocated by the Council of Europe’s European Landscape Convention (ELC). The first part includes a synthesis of the ‘accumulative’ evolution of the concept of heritage, highlighting the ELC’s contribution to an understanding of territory that is open and includes the landscape, and with a landscape policy supported by public involvement and the dynamic management of the processes that define its character. The second part presents the institutional and social bases of the experience of development in the Nansa Valley (Cantabria province), the method and the results of the characterisation and valuation of the landscape heritage in the area, with special emphasis on public involvement initiatives and the linchpins of the Action Plan, detailing and evaluating some of the most significant actions.
