Le Marais Breton de Loire-Atlantique : la qualification paysagère d'un marais oublié

Abstract

The Marais Breton of Loire-Atlantique (western France): a forgotten marsh recognised as a landscape.- Not only areas of outstanding value are officially recognised as landscapes. Ordinary rural areas may also be listed as landscapes, as part of a process that leads to public action. A phenomenological approach based on interviews with institutional stakeholders in the Marais Breton (Breton marsh) of Loire-Atlantique in western France shows that this area of little importance for these stakeholders until now is beginning to be recognised as a landscape. The authors look for signs of a consequence that usually occurs when a landscape becomes an object of public policy: the area is turned into a ≪ museum ≫.