| Summary: | The evolution of regulation on environmental assessment and the development of the European Convention of landscape are reinforcing the contents of the urbanism documents on landscaping policies. However, an assessment will be necessary in order to analyze precisely their relevance and effectiveness. In this context, how can we assess a landscaping policy ? On which objects should we focus the analysis ? How can we interpret the evolution of landscapes ? Numerous of issues are raised from the space level to the content of the urbanism document which is supposed to handle the evolution of landscapes. The orientations marking the landscapes come from sectorial policies and policies specifically dedicated to landscape. What are the results of these orientations ? How identifying their contribution and how qualifying this type of public intervention ? We reckon that the assessment of a landscaping policy requires to consider the landscape intervention in its global nature. The evaluation monitors the landscape project as a whole (all policies concerned), which can be related to regulation but also can be incentive or pedagogical. Adapting the public policies monitoring tools to the nature itself of the urbanism document is necessary in order to integrate the evaluation criteria in the general territorial planning process. We will borrow from the public policies monitoring the frame essential to assess the landscaping policy in its global nature and in the quality of its composition. Our methodological objective should integrate not only the landscaping policy content but also the elaboration modes by using the reconstitution method of the action theories. It will allow us to identify the intervention logics and their relevance, in order to understand the reasons of the actor’s mobilization and the observable repercussions on space.
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