The landscape and the river contract

Abstract

The landscape specialist is generally asked to correct the black points and to hide the ugliness. His task should not stop at the project design phase, but should allow him to monitor and advise during its implementation. It is his duty to use the opportunity created by a river contract to reformulate a coherent landscape demand and set up a global policy that would take into account landscape values in development plans. This article proposes two examples which illustrate the lack of global strategy during the setting up of the Gier river contract in the Loire Department.