National Landscape Strategy for Ireland 2020-2025. Country/Territory Ireland Document type Miscellaneous Date 2015 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil, Water Keyword Land-use planning Coastal zone management Policy/planning Sustainable development Waterworks Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract The objective of this Strategy is to provide the data that will assist in the future decision making process regarding our landscapes, and which will ensure that decisions are made on the basis of factual evidence collected. It is triggered by the European Landscape Convention, which promotes the protection, management and planning of European landscapes and organises European co-operation on landscape issues. the National Landscape Strategy will be used to ensure compliance with the European Landscape Convention and to establish principles for protecting and enhancing the landscape while positively managing its change. It provides a high level policy framework to achieve balance between the protection, management and planning of the landscape by way of supporting actions. The objectives of the National Landscape Strategy are to - implement the European Landscape Convention by integrating landscape into our approach to sustainable development; establish and embed a public process of gathering, sharing and interpreting scientific, technical and cultural information in order to carry out evidence-based identification and description of the character, resources and processes of the landscape; provide a policy framework, which will put in place measures at national, sectoral (including agriculture, tourism, energy, transport and marine) and local level, together with civil society, to protect, manage and properly plan through high quality design for the sustainable stewardship of our landscape; ensure that we take advantage of opportunities to implement policies relating to landscape use that are complementary and mutually reinforcing and that conflicting policy objectives are avoided in as far as possible. Full text English Website www.chg.gov.ie