Why cultural landscapes have different values? Thinking about heritage landscape evaluation and monitoring tools

Abstract

The subject of this paper aims to contribute for the management of heritage landscapes. Among others, this approach it’s quite important when we intend to establish a priority scale concerning indicators monitoring criteria. The authors want to emphasized and remember the fact that many cultural landscapes present a high heritage value; if everybody agree upon that, they must be submitted to heritage science criteria and good practices goals. It means we care about preservation and conservation policies and evaluation methods. So, this approach obliged us also to perceive the link between the actual cultural landscape and the people history that interact with this specific area. We can put it in an interrogative way: is it possible to reach all cultural landscape values if we don’t know how people have built up each landscape for centuries? Nevertheless, our objective now is just to identify some criteria or parameters that we should take care and account when we are defining the heritage landscape values. This is quite important when we try to intervene in land management to valorise countryside and give a change to rural development.