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Landscape: stake and tool for land use planning. For last decades, landscape has gradually become a stake of land use planning in Europe. The European Landscape Convention formalizes landscape as an issue of general interest and promotes a democratic landscape planning. However, landscape is rarely in practice the subject of pluridisciplinary and concerted approaches. So land use planning searches for a landscape concept able to gather together the various disciplinary and societal points of view. This federative concept can help it to build concerted policies of landscape planning. To question about and clarify nature, scale and ways of reading of landscape then enable us to develop a landscape concept that holds two positions in land use planning. Firstly, landscape as we define it constitutes a stake of land use planning in line with its pluridisciplinary and concerted approach. Secondly, as tool of questioning and consciousness-raising about land use planning, landscape contributes to elaborate a concerted land management.
