„KRAJOBRAZY EUROPY − GOSPODARKA PLANOWA CZY GENEROWANIE CHAOSU?” Konferencja naukowa, Wrocł aw, 17-19 wrześ nia 2009 r.

Ascientific conference on ”The Landscapes of Europe – A Planned Economy or the Creation of Chaos?” took place in Wrocław on 17-19 September 2009. The meeting was the outcome of several months of cooperation involving three largest Wrocław academic centres: the University of Wrocław, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, and the Wrocław Polytechnic. The joint motto encompassed three landscape conferences: the Forum of Landscape Architecture (Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences), ”The faces of balance” (Wrocław Polytechnic) and deliberations on the encroaching extinction of the landscape (Wrocław University). The reason for organising the conference was concern for the landscape – its diversity and quality in the context of negative civilisational, environmental and legal phenomena as well as such accompanying developments as the impoverishment, degradation and appropriation of the Polish landscape. The participants of the debates stressed the role of suitable pro-landscape education and drew attention to the necessity of a consistent implementation of a cohesive landscape policy. The conference accepted the Wrocław Landscape Charter, at the same time emphasising the role of the active participation of the academic milieus in the decision-making process and in shaping the Polish landscape.