Restructuring Cultural Landscapes
Industrial processes, such as mining, have altered and disturbed landscapes within a short time. Natural and cultural heritages as well as regional identities have often been neglected by changing economic structures. REKULA, the Restructuring of Cultural Landscapes, aims at establishing integrated and co-ordinated measures for a renewed appreciation of altered cultural landscapes. A committee of experts was established in order to develop landscaping criteria and assume the evaluation tasks. The expert commission acts as a group of consultants for the EU via the REKULA project and transmits the dialogue to the European level as an international discourse on the treatment of altered landscapes. Pilot projects are intended to help establish the necessary set of tools for application throughout Europe. They are intended as a set of rules for the production, i.e. preservation, of the balance of natural resources as well as handy tools for managing the entire process.