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Keywords
symbolic values
identity values
public participation
communication processes
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Abstract
The recently approved legislation on Cataluña’s landscape aims at considering landscape as a physical and cultural asset that should be preserved. The Observatory of Cataluña’s Landscape is the entity in charge of enforcing the new legislation through the design of the so-called Landscape Catalogues. The section corresponding to the delimitation of the symbolic and identity values of the landscape is particularly interesting; such values will be promoted through processes of public participation mostly implemented on the Internet and by means of interviews with interested stakeholders. On the other hand, semiotics has become the general science of signs and symbols and represents, in this case, a real decoder of the landscape’s potential to elicit communication among citizens. The article describes the processes –essentially communicative— by means of which intangible values of Cataluña’s landscape are expected to be brought to the surface.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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