Legislative Framework for Landscape Planning in Latvia

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS

土木建筑工程

Nitavska, Natalija^1 ; Zigmunde, Daiga^1

Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Environment and Civil Engineering, Latvia University of Agriculture, Rgas street 22, Jelgava

LV-3004, Latvia^1

关键词: Complex structure;    European Countries;    Landscape planning;    Legislative frameworks;    Normative documents;    Organizational system;    Protection and management;    Second group;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/6/062033/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/6/062033

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

With the adoption and the ratification of the European Landscape Convention a legally justified need for a clear landscape policy was grounded in the European countries. It includes the elaboration of the new and the improvement of the existing legislative documents on landscape planning, protection and management. The aim of the particular study is to analyse the existing legislative documents in Latvia influencing landscape planning on different scales / and the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. The study emphasizes the complex structure of the Latvian legislative framework affected by the distribution of the normative documents under the various ministries. Therefore, the main problem is unclear responsibility levels and organizational system for solving the issues regarding landscape planning, protection and management. Thus the various discussions between the involved disciplines and responsible institutions are arising. Two groups of the legislative documents influencing the implementation of the landscape policy in Latvia are detected within the study. The first group is strategic documents determining main landscape planning principles and directions at European, national, regional and professional or sectoral level. The second group is operational documents providing a set of actions for the landscape planning, protection and management at the local or the municipality level. The study concludes that operational documents developed by the municipalities are in high importance because of their direct influence on the landscape planning in Latvia. This often leads to the different landscape planning requirements included in the normative documents of the neighbouring municipalities, although the spatial and ecological borders of the visual landscape do not fit with the formal borders of the municipalities. Thus, it is essential to develop the common principles and actions that would be incumbent on all municipalities to provide the landscape integrity and to protect its values according to the main principles defined in the European Landscape Convention.