In this course, it is aimed to enable students to understand the basic concepts, principles, approaches and tools of landscape management within the context of natural, cultural, social, economic and spatial processes. The course aims to enable students to evaluate landscape as a multilayered system that changes through the relationship between nature, people and time, and to interpret the social, economic and environmental processes that shape landscape change. It also aims to enable students to develop sustainable management objectives, strategies, action proposals and monitoring indicators by relating the European Landscape Convention, analysis, monitoring, scenario, decision-support and participation tools to the stages of preparing a landscape management plan.

In this course, the concept of landscape, the formation of landscape within the relationship between nature, people and time, landscape change and the necessity of landscape management are addressed. The relationship between planning, conservation, maintenance and management is evaluated within the framework of the European Landscape Convention, the balance between conservation and use, participation, governance and adaptive management principles. Analysis, monitoring, scenario, decision-support and participation tools used in landscape management are examined together with stakeholders, coordination, maintenance-management processes and monitoring indicators. In the final section, the process of preparing a landscape management plan is evaluated through the stages of identification, problem definition, development of aims, objectives and principles, strategy and action proposals, implementation, maintenance, monitoring and feedback. The assessment of the course is based on written examinations, course participation/performance, and assignment studies consisting of readings, topic research, in-class presentations and written submissions. Mid-term assessment consists of the mid-term examination (15%), course participation/performance (10%) and two assignment studies (15%), accounting for 40% of the total grade. The end-of-term assessment consists of the final examination (25%), course participation/performance (10%) and two assignment studies (25%), accounting for 60% of the total grade.