<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Nature and landscape protection has gained importance over the past 50 years from the economic, cultural, health, and recreational point of view. The process is closely linked to our civilizational endeavours (such as economic interests, pollution, urbanization, super-intensive agriculture, etc.) that threaten our natural values as well as to the ever more frequent environmental disasters resulting from the above. The continued destruction of our natural and landscape values is not reversible. The aim of this article is to determine the important and urgent professional tasks regarding exploring, documenting, safeguarding, and raising awareness of values. My work wishes to draw attention to the landscape values and deficiencies of Transylvania, working with examples from other countries; by using Romanian examples, I also wish to support my assumption according to which if we want to preserve unique landscapes on the European level we need to act quickly.</p></abstract>

Nature and landscape protection has gained importance over the past 50 years from the economic, cultural, health, and recreational point of view. The process is closely linked to our civilizational endeavours (such as economic interests, pollution, urbanization, super-intensive agriculture, etc.) that threaten our natural values as well as to the ever more frequent environmental disasters resulting from the above. The continued destruction of our natural and landscape values is not reversible. The aim of this article is to determine the important and urgent professional tasks regarding exploring, documenting, safeguarding, and raising awareness of values. My work wishes to draw attention to the landscape values and deficiencies of Transylvania, working with examples from other countries; by using Romanian examples, I also wish to support my assumption according to which if we want to preserve unique landscapes on the European level we need to act quickly.

The importance of protecting unique Romanian landscape values, illustrated by examples of problem solving in other countries

Szent István University Budapest, Doctoral School of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Ecology,

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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Nature and landscape protection has gained importance over the past 50 years from the economic, cultural, health, and recreational point of view. The process...

The importance of protecting unique Romanian landscape values, illustrated by examples of problem solving in other countries

Published Online: Feb 08, 2017

Page range: 89 - 95

Received: Sep 30, 2016

Accepted: Oct 30, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausae-2016-0008

Keywords
landscape protection, exploration, unique character, landscape element

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The importance of protecting unique Romanian landscape values, illustrated by examples of problem solving in other countries

Published Online: Feb 08, 2017

Page range: 89 - 95

Received: Sep 30, 2016

Accepted: Oct 30, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausae-2016-0008

Keywordslandscape protection, exploration, unique character, landscape element

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
landscape protection, exploration, unique character, landscape element