One of the fundamental characteristics of landscape is change. To discover and prevent negative trends and to make reasoned decisions about landscape, it is therefore crucial to monitor its change. Yet there is no established monitoring system in Slovenia that would monitor landscape thoroughly and in the long term. Therefore, a proposal for the landscape monitoring system based on society’s value system has been designed. To ensure the system is holistic, it covers all three aspects of landscape. The structure of landscape has been addressed with indicators spatial order, diversity and visual attractiveness. To cover the meaning of landscape, indicators land use continuity and place identity are utilized. To cover the functions of landscape, indicators connectivity and accessibility, resistance to hazards and multifunctionality are utilized. The system has been applied to the landscape characteristic units. It contains eighteen subordinate indicators which are predominantly based on indicators from the renewal of Slovenian landscape regionalization and on indicators from foreign literature. The indicators that are already monitored in Slovenia, except for degraded areas and endangered buildings due to flooding, proved to be less relevant. The system includes expert and public opinion, uses data from remote sensing every four years, as well as field surveys and public opinion questionnaires every eight years. Conducting trial evaluation of the trends, we found out that the landscape in the karstic and sample landscape units from other regions does not change uniformly. On average, slightly more than half of the landscape units change in accordance with the desired trends.
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