ABSTRACT

The Atlas du paysage programme began in France in 1994, 6 years before the ELC, but has not come yet to a harmonised process, unlike the more recent series of Atlas des paysages de Wallonie, started in 2007. Nonetheless, French Atlas du paysage retain a strong specificity in the European context, with some innovating methods, results and dissemination formats. Four aspects are explored here: their decentralised implementation, the question of scale and mapping, the integration of social perceptions, and the use of Landscape Atlases by stakeholders in local planning. At the time when the French methodology has recently been revised in 2015, it is possible to assess the contribution of French and Wallonia experiences to European Landscape Character Assessment.