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Evaluation du paysage et politiques publiques: application à l'agglomération de Montbéliard et à la commune de Morez (Franche-Comté)

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"If landscape is now part of public action at all scale levels, the effects of this action should be revealed in the landscape itself. We have to look further". This main goal of the "public policies and landscape" research program, initiated in 1998 by the French ministry of environment, encourages the scientific community to Invest both the landscape assessment and public policies research fields. This research aims at bringing a new contribution to this subject, taking into account recent advances and remaining questions. An assessment tool based on standardized and comparable landscape indices is proposed. This approach is based on measures performed on the visible part of the landscape, to deliver a quantitative knowledge to public stakeholders of two study fields in Franche-Comté (France). These measures are obtained through viewshed modelling, commonly implemented in GIS. They're also the result of original coding development using both old and recent geographic resources. This Implementation task involved specific methodological issues. Thus, this knowledge allows us to confront landscape and stakes raised by public policies, in order to contribute to their mutual assessment.