Methodology of Monitoring of the Landscape Conservation Zones

Cultural landscape presents with its diversity and uniqueness a significant part of the natural and cultural heritage of human society. They are the Landscape Conservation Zones (LCZ) are currently the only legal category, through which the state heritage preservation may enter the field of protection of unique historical cultural landscape. Basic problem of the current management of the Landscape Conservation Zones is an absence of systematically designed, structured and standardized system of area conservation, management and planning including aspects of identification and evidence of the landscape values and methods of landscape quality monitoring. The guidance presents main principles of the suitable monitoring indicators and way of the landscape heritage assessment in the Czech Republic. There is the special emphasis is put on indicators describing changes of the land use pattern, landscape visibility and effectiveness of the planning tools