La implementación de indicadores de lo intangible para catalogar el paisaje percibido. El caso del Observatorio del Paisaje de Cataluña

Abstract

The definition of landscape promoted by the European Landscape Convention (2000), emphasizes the symbolic values that citizens attribute to the landscape in terms of how it is perceived. In that sense, the Catalan government promoted the Landscape Protection, Management and Planning Act (2005), which, among other actions, included the physical and symbolic evaluation of landscapes in Catalonia through establishment of the so-called ‘Landscape Catalogues’. According to this, the aim of this article is to analyse, at a theoretical and applied level and through the study case methodology, the landscape indicators implemented by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, with special emphasis on the development of intangible indicators, since this initiative represents an unprecedented project in Europe with regard to a public body establishing a catalogue of intangible values for a given landscape.