The Voivodeship’s Program of Malopolska Heritage and Cultural Landscape Protection

• Main Author: JÓZEF HERNIK
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cluj University Press 2007-01-01
• Series: Romanian Review of Regional Studies
• Subjects: the Voivodeship’s Program of Malopolska Heritage and Cultural Landscape Protection; the European Landscape Convention; Cultural landscape; Heritage; UNESCO World Heritage List
• Online Access: http://rrrs.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhive/Artpdf/v3n22007/RRRS032200706.pdf

The main goal in the field of landscape management includes the protection and improvement of landscapes’ condition and departing from their degradation. This goal is included in the European Landscape Convention. Its aim is to care for continent’s landscapes through the processes such as identification, evaluation, protection, management, and planning. The Convention is to apply to all landscapes, not only to the landscapes of a unique value such as national parks or to the landscapes that are on the List of World Heritage UNESCO. The article includes the analysis of the Voivodeship’s Program of Malopolska Heritage and Cultural Landscape Protection from the point of view of the Convention. Due to the fact that Poland has ratified this Convention, certain responsibilities follow. On voivodeship’s level, the Voivodeship’s Program should be recognized as a device to carry out the policy in the field of landscape in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention.