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REDUCING LANDSCAPE VALUES UNCERTAINTY

The paper primarily deals with the degree of uncertainty that brings uneasiness when considering a land-use plan that is perceived as the outcome of planning procedure. Specifically, the paper addresses the issue of uncertainties that follow social value systems attached to a landscape. There is no professional consent about the question of value that ought to be attributed to protection. Apart from the usual exception to the rule that intrinsic or predefined values are apparently still firmly entrenched in landscape planning practice, at the pedagogic level of the discipline there is a shift towards extrinsic values. The underlying premise of the paper is that evaluation of natural systems based on predefined values makes consent between developmental and conservational interests impossible. In order to fulfil the key landscape planning principle - “ as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA), the analytical phases of the planning procedure should mandatorily involve or acquire information derived from human relation to nature. Or in other words, in order to be truly socially responsible, a planner should consider multitude of conservational goals and his/her expert knowledge should provide transfer of such conservational goals into different value definitions of the same environmental component or system as whole. That is argued to be prerequisite point of departure for optimisation planning procedures. The paper will begin by brief outline of two fundamentally different value categories. Their reflections or consequences in land use decisions concerning present conservational policy in Croatia will be discussed next. By extension, the “ extrinsic vs. predefined landscape value” dispute will be argued from the teaching point of view, especially concerning those elements that invoke difficulties while generating and/or linking the concepts of evaluation models. The paper will finally acknowledge a platform of three value systems as an appropriate mode to cope with the uncertainty within planning process. 1 INTRODUCTION

planning process; uncertainty; environmental problems; reducing landscape; impact assessment; vulnerability analysis;

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