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Activities That everyone is to feel included in a participative way it its country's landscape development, if that country has ratified the European Landscape Convention, is basic to Landscape & Citizens. See also the new Glossary in English and French, 2008, from which this Swedish translation of "participative planning" is taken:Yes, Landscape is indeed an aspect of the "territorial dimension of Human Rights" - or should so be!  One of the important steps to be taken according to the European Landscape Convention are the need for Landscape Identifications - and the need for broad participation of the public in this. One big aim with the present wep page is to help orienting about this... Arhur Spiegler, Chair Man of the NGO of ECOVAST (European Council for the Village and the Small Town) has stated: "This is important
because it offers the opportunity for a broad public approach in
comprehending landscapes
(a basic feature of the European Landscape Convention). So the citizens can take the initiative in identifying landscapes of their countries." However as has been pointed out, by the Council of Europe Expert, Mr Michel Prieur: "Interpretation of the concept 'public' is not the same in all countries. On the whole, one can differentiate
As a newly created organisation in the non-governmental sector, one of our aims is to inform Swedish citizens in between those States for whom public means individuals and those for whom public also means, in the main, central government, regional and local authorities and professionals. Participation must be open to the public in general, including children, even where they are not direcly or legally concerned." this important area for civil society, where we are convinced: the more "eyes" - the better... Considering, that Sweden has not yet ratified the European Landscape Convention, our concrete doings have also been adapted to this. So there is a little organisation in Kinda, one of thirteen communities in the County of Östergötland, that has actually the promotion of the European Landscape Convention in its charter. But since this has not, sofar, seemed to interest neither the County Board, nor the local LAG-group within the Swedish Leader+Network, our official activities up to now are of a preparatory kind. Here are a few exemples:  Landscape questions and territories/regions go hand in hand. So the Association for Landscape in Kinda was quite happy to be granted some support for a seminar on this over-all theme: "Regions, EU and the future", coming up in September, in Linköping, Sweden. Recently it was invited by the Committee together with other Project Leaders on a Seminar on this, orgnised in the Museum of the Mediterranean World, in Stockholm. More information about the Seminar we will ourselves be organising continually on News. About the Committée for EU-DEBATE, see more on the http://www.eu-debatt.nu
 Another engagement of the Kinda Landskapsförening, this time on landscape in the suburban areas and supported by the Swedish Staaff Fond was to observe a conference in Cork, Ireland, in June 2005 on "Landscape and Urban Policies". Please, see the Programme (PDF-file, 185 kb), or see photographs on: http://atelier-soucieu.chez-alice.fr/pages/e2m/E2Mintro.html the Conference on March 2005 in Strasbourg. See Programme here and read our Report: The Role of Training in the Implementation of The Policy of Sustainable Spatial Development in Europe ( word-file, 94 kb) could/should be created between environmental, social and economic fields -
was in the center in our  speech for a Romanian and international public in Tulcea, Romania in May 2004. Read this speech here: Swedish Landscape (word-file, 84 kb) Above all we would really like to engage with other citizens and habitants for various landscape issues in Sweden. Intil that day, when a civil society engaged precisely in landscape matters like in this surburban landscape in Bretagne, France, below, we can only call on our co-citizens: dont let the Swedish Government decide about your views on landscape: go find out for yourself... 
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