For the purposes of the European Landscape Convention– N. 3827/10, FEK 30/A/25.02.10, "Ratification of the European Landscape Convention" (ELC, Florence 20.10.00) – “Landscape” means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors (Article 1, §a). Landscape has an important public interest role in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, and is an important part of the quality of life for people every-where too (preamble). The objectives of the Convention are to promote landscape protection, management and planning, and to organize European cooperation on landscape issues (Article 3). The general (Article 4) and specific measures (awareness-raising, training and education, identification and assessment, landscape quality objectives, implementation) (Article 5), correspond directly to the critical approach methodology adopted by the scientific world of industrial heritage. This approach is developed mainly during the last three decades and has been incorporated in international resolutions, declarations and charters, such as the Declaration of Amsterdam (Congress on the European Architectural Heritage, 21-25 October 1975), The Australia ICOMOS Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Significance - (The Burra Charter) (Australia ICOMOS) - 1981 rev.1998/99), Joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites, Structures, Areas and Landscapes (2003/11) or The Paris Declaration οn heritage as a driver of development (2011). In a European level, each country develops its own institutional tools for landscape design harmonizing, thus, the European Landscape Convention in the national level. In parallel, European networks are emerging, such as the “UNISCAPE - European Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention”, in collaboration with “ENELC - European Network of Local and Regional authorities for the implementation of the European Landscape ...
