Aikaterini GkoltsiouIndependant researcher · Independant researcher
Aikaterini Gkoltsiou
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This paper investigated the use of landscape character assessment and perception surveys of stakeholders (i.e. employees, students and visitors) and SWOT analysis as a holistic approach to developing landscape management guidelines for historical public parks. The aim is to conserve and protect the historical and cultural heritage (landscape charac...
The European Union (EU) Directive 2013/55/EC amends Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The 2013 amendment allows Member States to decide on a common set of minimum knowledge, skills and competences required to pursue a given profession through a Common Training Framework (CTF). Such a framework must combine trai...
The European Union (EU) Directive 2013/55/EC amends Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The 2013 amendment allows Member States to decide on a common set of minimum knowledge, skills and competences required to pursue a given profession through a Common Training Framework (CTF). Such a framework must combine trai...
United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the European Green Deal and the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are legislative proposals counting on rural and agricultural landscapes to assist climate change mitigation, ecosystem services and preservation of heritage. Agricultural landscapes take up more than 10% of the earth’s land surfa...
This work proposes a holistic landscape assessment methodology, with novel and practical tools, which can support sustainable landscape development for small islands. The Greek island of Gavdos is the case study. An Islandscape character assessment was developed and applied, through a series of maps, extensive data collection and field work visits....
Landscape character assessment (LCA) methods have been used in the past few decades to analyze, classify, and map landscape types, using objective and subjective approaches, with the aid of both quantitative and qualitative data. This paper addresses and critically evaluates the compromises and ways in which contemporary LCA methodologies employ (o...
Many European policies (European Landscape Convention, European Spatial Development Perspective, Euroscape 2020) stress the important role of landscape in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, in regional planning, in rural development schemes, new forms of governance and in national and European spatial planning initiatives. S...
Many European policies (European Landscape Convention, European Spatial Development Perspective, Euroscape 2020) stress the important role of landscape in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, in regional planning, in rural development schemes, new forms of governance and in national and European spatial planning initiatives. S...
Beirut is a cityscape of juxtaposed fragments that have lost value and collective identity. Dealing with complex and hybrid conditions demands a thorough understanding of the existing situation in all its spatial, social, cultural and political reality. And Beirut, in particular, demands a redefinition of what a ‘collective’ can refer to in a city...
This paper aims to analyze the Greek landscape through the eyes of locals and tourists. A detailed literature review is conducted in order to identify the main landscape elements that are considered important by locals and tourists. The objectives are a) to analyze the Greek landscape through definitions given by Greek literature and legislation, b...
Landscape structure has been analysed in many European countries with the aid of indicator-based landscape assessments, geographical information system (GIS) and remote-sensing techniques, applied mainly in landscape ecology and geography. The objective of this paper is to present a developed framework of landscape indicators and appropriate spatia...
This article presents a new methodological framework for assessing the structure of coastal tourist landscapes, bearing the potential for development, in order to adjust to all sorts of other tourist landscapes. Through a combined application of landscape indicators, remote sensing and landscape character assessment methods, the proposed framework...
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Project (1)
The MedScapes Project was approved during the second call for standard ENPI projects of the period 2007-2013 according to the ENPI Priority 2: “Promotion of environmental sustainability at the Basin lev-el, pursued through the preservation of natural common heritage, the reduction of risk factors for the environment, the improvement of energy efficiency and the promotion of the use of renewable energy sources”, and Measure 2.1: “Prevention and reduction of risk factors for the environment and enhance-ment of natural common heritage”.
MedScapes brings together eight (8) partners from four (4) countries for this two-year project: Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon. Each country is represented by one non-governmental organisation (NGO) and one University. The eight project partners are:
• Laona Foundation for the Conservation and Regeneration of the Cypriot Countryside (Lead Part-ner);
• Open University of Cyprus;
• Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN), Jordan;
• German Jordanian University (GJU);
• Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL);
• American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon;
• Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA), Greece; and
• University of the Aegean (UoA), Greece.
The Project aims to strengthen the protection of, and reduce risk to the landscape heritage (natural her-itage and the landscapes that sustain it), through the development of an integrative Landscape Charac-ter Assessment (LCA) framework for enhanced territorial planning and sustainable landscape manage-ment. The specific objective of the Project is to develop and apply a Best-Practice Methodology (BPM) for LCA and landscape recording in pilot areas, and to promote the results as a tool for sustainable land use decision-making and landscape-scale protection of the natural and cultural heritage in the East Med-iterranean context.
A series of activities have been planned in order to achieve this objective. These activities work in a complementary manner, involving desktop research and mapping, field validation, stakeholder and community involvement, training and education workshops and material. The BPM for LCA is at the heart of the Project’s outcomes, as it capitalises on the joint experience of the partners’ LCA implemen-tation in the selected pilot sites, to deliver a fully tested and regionally adapted methodology for land-scape characterisation and mapping in the East Mediterranean.
I was representing the University of the Aegean as a project Manager and Scientific Assistant. For the time being, I am preparing research proposal, based on the above work and more focused on landscape planning in a regional level.
