Lab2PT researcher Rebeca Blanco Rotea is taking part in the ‘Landscape planning and management’ module as part of the ‘Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes’ Master’s Degree (2024-2025) organised by the Universities of Jaén and the International University of Andalusia, on 16 and 17 January in Baeza (Spain).
The complexity of landscapes, as the spatial materialisation of human practices in the past and present, and the result of the interaction between physical space and the socio-cultural, economic and symbolic actions of the human groups that have inhabited and are inhabiting it, means that any management must be approached from the concept of sustainable development, always taking into account each country’s sustainable development strategy, in the case of Spain, the 2002 Spanish Sustainable Development Strategy document, which will be approved in 2007.
Since the approval of the European Landscape Convention in 2000, and specifically since its ratification by Spain in 2008, cultural landscapes have played a key role in the heritage and environmental policies of the Council of Europe’s member states. Although in Spain there is an important tradition of theorising and conceptualising cultural landscapes from a heritage point of view, or developing methodologies that approach their study from different fields of the Social Sciences, such as archaeology, their management and conservation are subject to a new process of theoretical-methodological and fundamentally practical development, when since 2008 both the Spanish state and the different autonomous communities have begun to develop regulatory instruments that legislate for these landscapes, their conservation and safeguarding from an integral management paradigm. All these issues will be addressed in this course.

 

Coordination: Vicente Salvatierra, University of Jaén

Participants: Vicente Salvatierra (University of Jaen), Agustín Azkarate (University of the Basque Country), Margarita Fernández Mier (University of Oviedo), Rebeca Blanco-Rotea (Lab2PT, UMinho)

 

Initiative link: HERE