ABSTRACT

By the right to landscape we mean a concern with the inclusions and exclusions operated by landscape-related practices. Different authors argue that hegemonic landscapes create exclusion, insofar as they embody forms of relation to the land by those in power, thereby undermining or obscuring other ways of relation between humans and their physical environments (Williams, 1973; Bender, 1993; Mitchell, 2002). Inclusion, on the other hand, is more recently being promoted as an explicit objective in public policy, as illustrated by the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe, 2000). The Convention sets out to look for and to incorporate into decision-making processes inputs by all those involved with a particular landscape (Jones, 2007).