Manuel Corbera Millán

EL PAISAJE, SU PATRIMONIALIZACIÓN Y EL BENEFICIO ECONÓMICO

The landscape, its heritage status and economic benefit The last two decades have seen a renewed interest in the landscape by different scientific areas and political and administrative institutions. This has been interpreted by some authors from a neo-romantic perspective, considering it as a reaction to the destructive effects of modernity. The European Landscape Convention (ELC), which was signed in Florence in the year 2000, established a widely accepted defini tion of landscape and intervention guidelines that aim to create the framework of national and regional laws of the signatory countries. This paper aims to explain the revival of interest in the landscape from the point of view of the economic development of the area, as an externality that generates revenue. In my opinion that is the real orientation of the ELC.