Preface.- Contributing authors.- Introduction.- The issue of public participation in the European Landscape Convention, Michael Jones and Marie Stenseke.- Part I: Implementing participation.- European landscape and participation rhetoric or reality?, Michael Jones.- The Dutch approach: Public participation and the role of NGOs and local authorities in the protection, management and development of cultural landscapes in the Netherlands, Henk Baas, Bert Groenewoudt, and Edwin Raap.- The participatory dimension in nature conservation processes: Examples of ideology and practice from Norway, Karoline Daugstad.- The implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Poland; Anna Majchrowska.- 6. Landscape regulation in regional territorial planning: A view from Spain; Berezi Elorrieta and Dolores Sanchez-Aguilera.- 7. In search of the Greek landscape: A cultural geography, Theano S. Terkenli.- Part II: Participatory methods and case studies.- 8. Landscape in participatory processes: Tools for stimulating debate on landscape issues? A conceptual and methodological reflection from research-action projects in France, Yves Michelin, Thierry Joliveau, and Claire Planchat-Hery.- 9. The Prospective Vision: Integrating the farmers point of view into French and Belgian local planning; Claire Planchat-Hery.- 10. Landscape Quality Objectives for remote rural landscapes in Portugal: Addressing experts and stakeholders perspectives on future developments; Isabel Loupa Ramos.- 11. Landscape perception through participation: Developing new tools for landscape analysis in local planning processes in Norway; Morten Clemetsen, Erling Krogh, and Kine Halvorsen Thoren.- 12. Participation within the landscape of the River Dart Catchment, Devon, England; Neil Spencer.- 13. Regional Landscape Strategies and public participation: Towards implementing the European Landscape Convention in Sweden; Anders Larsson, Anna Peterson, Elinor Bjarnborg, Christine Haaland, andMats Gyllin.- 14. The role of information, knowledge and acceptance during landowner participation in the Natura 2000 designations: The cases of Otepaa and Konnumaa, Estonia; Monika Suskevics and Mart Kulvik.- Conclusion.- 15. Benefits, difficulties and challenges of participation under the European Landscape Convention; Marie Stenseke and Michael Jones.- Index.