European Policy Challenges in the Productive Landscape Economy

摘要

Economic and social processes characteristic for the end of the twentieth century, manifest through new ways of organizing space and new patterns of mobility and location of population, activities and labour force, both at urban and regional levels (in the territory adjacent to urban centres). In addition to these changes, extensive urban development, due to demand for land for development and decline of interest for primary activities, is reflected in the extra-urban territory, also on landscape perception and use.The research assumes that productive landscape is a component of generic landscape system this being one of the most common and extensive landscape systems but containing multiple values (including cultural) and proving the existence and evolution of territory. Although perceived and used most often as a common landscape with economical role, productive landscape is one of the local cultural resources, due to the values and meanings assigned, and is also one of the elements of local differentiation with respect to specificity and local identity.From this perspective, productive landscape problematic is extended at global level from economical (oriented on maximum land use and benefits) to cultural approach, describing the actual concerns to protect the ecological and historical features in a productive landscape economy.The paper proposes a comprehensive synthesis of European planning and legislative framework concerning productive landscapes (as perceived locally) by comparison also with the European Policies designated for spatial and economical development. The focus of this synthesis is to identify main implications of different planning documents and approaches for productive landscape, by comparing its vocation and valuation potential from economical dimension trough cultural one. The research tries to underline the main present features of European common productive landscapes and their future development, addressing both components: cultural and economical.