Landscape protection and management in Greece: Problems, perspectives, and policies

Abstract

An assessment of all actors involved to make suggestions for the establishment of the adequate bodies, services and mechanisms that would help for a new landscape strategy and policy in Greece was presented. The renewal of built-up areas and urbanization, the exploitation of landscapes as a source of economic growth and the conversion of rural and agricultural practices led to a significant landscape change. This transformation does not allow to conceive of Greek landscape as the locus of normal development. Towns and villages, the built-up environment was renewed with the use of reinforced concrete.