Nature Policies and Landscape Policies: Towards an Alliance

Introduction.- Part I New Paradigms.- Parks and Landscapes.- A Landscape Approach in Conservation Policy and Practice.- Nature Conservation Policies and Landscape Policies.- Conservation of Landscape.- The Ecological Functions in Landscape Conservation.- Protected Areas Governance and Biodiversity: from theory to action.- The Territorial Policies Contradictions.- Legal Frameworks for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection.- The Landscape Image as a Tool for Discovering Territorial Dimension.- Part II From Nature to Landscape and Back.- Landscape and Nature Protected Areas Laws and Policies in Italy.- From Landscape Protection to Nature Conservation: concept and tool evolution.- Protected Area Planning in Germany.- Parks and Landscapes in the Dutch Regional Planning.- Protected Areas, Natura 2000 Sites and Landscape.- Divergent Policies on Converging Values.- Protected Landscapes in the National Legislation of European Countries.- The Relationship between Protected Areas and Biosphere Reserves.- Linking Landscape Protection and Nature Conservation in Switzerland.- Protection of Peri-urban Agricultural Landscapes in Andalucia.- Landscape and Ecosystem Approach to Biodiversity Conservation.- Nature and Landscape: Theoretical Relationships and Operative Outcomes in Three Cases of Protected Landscapes.- Landscape Policies and Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation.- Participation and Governance as a Crucial Perspective on Protected Areas Policies.- Parks, Perception, Web.- Connecting the Alpine Protected Areas to Build an Alpine-wide Ecological Infrastructure.- Old and New Conservation Strategies: from Parks to land stewardship.- Ecotourism and Protected Areas in Morocco and Tunisia.- From the "island" Park to the "network" Park.- The Contractual Communities Contribution to the Cultural and Natural Resource Management.- The European Cultural Routes: a tool for landscape enhancement.- The Role of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in the Metropolitan Landscape Planning.- Landscape and Regional Policies and Tools in Sicily.- Between Nature and Landscape: towards an active conservation.- Beyond Gardens and Nature Reserves: the wild landscapes of Gilles Clément.- The Limit Concept in Landscape Design.- Nature in the Urban Landscape Planning.- Tools for Facing the Ecosystem and Landscape Fragmentation.- Urban landscapes and Nature in Planning and Spatial Strategies.- An Integrated Planning for Landscape Protection and Biodiversity Conservation.- The "Spectacle of Nature": conservation and management of scenic values in natural landscapes.- Landscapes between Conservation and Development.- An Assessment of the Role of Protected Landscapes in Conserving Biodiversity in Europe.- Learning about Governance: U.S. experience with landscape scale and community-based conservation.- Mountain Protected Areas: opportunities for innovative financial mechanisms?.- The Environmental Risk Assessment: costs and benefits of the Alpine Protected Areas.- Multi-scalar Strategies for Environment and Landscape.- The Landscape as a Tool for Sustainable Conservation Strategies.- Landscape Quality Objectives for Regional Strategies.- Towards an Integrated Economic Assessment of Landscape.- Part III Case Studies.- Regional Management Tools at Local Level.- Nature, Landscape, Energy.- Oil in the Val d'Agri Lucano.- A New Eco-sustainable Tourism Model.- Towards the Park of Florence Hills.- Alpi Liguri, a Park on the Border.- The Landscapes of the Portofino Park.- A Very Special Case Study: the Cinque Terre National Park.- The Enhancement of Historical Landscape in Southern Europe.- The Langhe Traditional Landscape Evolution.- Local Planning in Protected Areas.- Protected Area Planning, Institution and Management in Puglia Region.- Tourism and Conservation in Mountain Protected Areas.- The Historical Landscape for Protected Area Enhancement.- An Integrated Approach to Regional Planning for Protected Areas Sustainable Development.- The European Charter for Sustainabl