Historical Context Of Sustainability

The sustainability rhetoric was contended by many to be an unclear expression term that can mean anything. It can be viewed as a thought, a name so finished utilized that is effortlessly controlled (Benson and Roe, 2007; Andre Botequilha Leitao, 2002). Realizing that sustainability is just a grasping standard for creating and overseeing nature and resources, it can just accomplished if economy, environment and culture are facilitated in a unique procedure where economic prosperity would happen without nature and human resources being deployed or destroyed (Nohl, 2001; Quental et al., 2011) Reviewing the historical backdrop of sustainability reveals the term to have considered from three successive stages:

The first stage was imagined in

"Sustainable landscape" can be viewed as a call for minimizing impact on the natural environment (Antrop, 2006). As the first peak of the sustainability process was merely an environmental approach, the sustainability paradigm developed in based on concerns regarding depletion of resources and decreasing quality of human habitat (Andre Botequilha Leitao, 2002). Amid the second peak, the environmental issues got set back a little bit giving the way to the economic issues to be interpreted within the concept of sustainability (Quental et al., 2011). In the present peak the environmental issues has retained its position as the focal point of the sustainability concept undermining the importance of the other dimensions, socio-cultural and economic; also the term has developed to add the institutional dimension (Dave, 2011; Quental et al, 2011; Krank et al., 2011). Landscape can be viewed as one of the most promising fields for promoting sustainable development (Morse, et al., 2011; Andre Botequilha Leitao, 2002). However, the landscape of sustainability as asserted by Benson and Roe (2007): "is just as vast, difficult, slippery and mercurial as landscape itself (Benson and Roe, 2007)". Sustainable landscapes need to concentrate on damage occurring to the natural environmental not only to the present and past landscapes, but to the future landscapes as well (Opdam et al., 2006). It has to be recognized that there is no single sustainable landscape state; however, there might be a whole set of types and forms of landscapes that are more or less sustainable (Opdam et al., 2006). Sustainable landscape can be regarded simply when nature can develop freely and spontaneously in an area or a place (Nohl, 2001), where the all encompassing basis of landscape implies the integration between