Overview of landscape research and assessment in Portugal

Abstract

This paper presents two types of information in relation to landscape in Portugal. On the one side, information about the landscape related research and work undertaken in the country in recent years, and about whom is developing these activities, as a result of a survey carried out in 2002. On the other side, it describes some of the main characteristics (pattern, diversity, values and threats) of the Portuguese landscapes today, based on recent work for identification and characterisation of landscape areas developed by a research team for the Ministry of the Environment.