B 1.3 Landscape as human reality

"The landscape is a human reality – social, economic, political, cultural – since it is the home of human populations: a home which produces at least a part of their food, and provides spaces for their dwellings, places for their meetings and roads for their journeys. Men use the air, water, flora and fauna offered by their environment in order to meet their needs; they work, develop sets of social relations, isolate themselves or meet each other, exchange goods and information. They transform and pollute the air their breath, release the largest part of the water they use after spoiling it, and produce litter."

(This is an excerpt from the text by Professor Paul Claval “THE IDEA OF LANDSCAPE”)