ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the place of landscape at the international level. It argues that landscape was slow to become a suitable subject for international discourse because there was no consensus on the concept until recently, but that its relevance to the sustainability debate has changed this. Significant developments have been: the incorporation of cultural landscapes within the World Heritage Convention; IUCN’s work on Category V protected areas, or Protected Landscapes; Action Theme 4 of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy; and the proposed European Landscape Convention. The chapter analyses the significance of these developments and reviews their relevance to the UK. It concludes by predicting that the international dimension of landscape protection, management and planning will be increasingly important in the UK.
