ABSTRACT
Regionalisation represents an analytical tool widely used in landscape analysis, and ranges from suitability studies in regional planning to agricultural development potential assessments. It involves analytical classification of landscape into areas that display a significant degree of homogeneity in attributes, patterns and overall character. In recent decades an important method of regionalisation called landscape character assessment (LCA) has been developed and become widely used in landscape architecture. These LCA analyses are aimed at identification, classification and characterisation of homogeneous landscape areas, and enable judgements about their state and potentials, and represent an approach to landscape analysis that supports more integrated and collaborative forms of landscape planning. The regionalisation of a landscape can offer a systematic way of familiarising oneself with the landscape under investigation, serving as a form of situation analysis. Classification of a region or a landscape includes both delineation into homogeneous areas, and area descriptions.
