ABSTRACT
Fluvial landscapes are specific features of countryside fascination and can raise a more general appreciation of rurality, based on a general claim for environmental quality. The chapter considers the role of hydrography as prestigious morphological unit that increases the landscape’s aesthetic value. The case study involves a specific area in mountainous west Croatia that is part of a section of the Sava River catchment, whose main surface runoff is the Kupa river, to which other minor rivers, in turn, drain. Water-based tourism makes this fluvial system a good opportunity for an effective regeneration of this depopulated section of Croatia.
