Landscape: from common good to human right

Laura Menatti (laura.menatti@gmail.com)
Additional contact information
Laura Menatti: Passages - UB - Université de Bordeaux - MCC - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENSAP Bordeaux - École nationale supérieure d'architecture et du paysage de Bordeaux, Universidad del Desarrollo

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This paper analyses how the current concept of landscape, which overcomes a scenery-based characterisation and a confinement to classical aesthetics and art, relates to the notions of the common good, commons and commons pool resources (CPRs). I consider landscape as a complex process in which human beings (with their history and culture) and their environment are mutually defined. On the basis of this approach to landscape studies, and by considering contemporary documents on landscape (i.e. the European Landscape Convention, the Latin American Initiative for Landscape and the UNESCO Florence Declaration) I analyse the similarity between the notion of landscape and the concepts of common good, the management of commons and the commons pool resources institutions. Through theoretical research supported by practical examples (e.g. community gardens) I argue that landscape can be defined as a common good, can include the commons, and the collective management of lands and common pool resources institutions. The paper relies on an excursus through the theories and legal documents , with a specific regard to the theoretical foundations of these different notions. The analysis carried out in the paper leads, in the end, to the possibility of defining the 'right to landscape'. Even if the concept is new in the literature, and a right to landscape is not recognised as a right per se, it is already implicated and studied in many international rights laws. Three approaches to landscape as a right have been distinguished: the right to landscape as a perceived landscape (a collective right), as a right to the environment and a right for addressing human rights. I integrated these approaches by arguing that landscape is a domain in relation to which human rights can be claimed, and that landscape can be considered as a right to which human beings are entitled.

Keywords: Keyword: Common good; common pool resources; commons; landscape; landscape perception; right to landscape (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01993259
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Published in International Journal of the Commons, 2017, 11 (2), pp.641-683. ⟨10.18352/ijc.738⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01993259/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01993259

DOI: 10.18352/ijc.738

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD (hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr).