The landscape concept as a prodrome to the definition of biocultural fingerprint. The European Landscape Convention (2000),
defines the landscape as part of a particular area, as
perceived by people, whose character derives from
the natural and /or humans factors and their
interrelations. This definition of landscape contrasts
with the need to find a lowest common denominator
among the various meanings that the various
disciplines give to best notion or idea of the
landscape. In the text are examinated, in a first part,
the different meanings that the term landscape took
over the centuries and later, while in a second part,
is developed the discussion of the geographical and
agrarian landscape. The work concludes with an analysis of the concept of mosaic
landscape environment with particular attention to the homogenization leads to
the loss of territorial boundaries between urban and rural area, generating
phenomena of uncertainty from both aesthetically and from a psychological
standpoint.
