Abstract
The paper focus on the landscape policies developed in the Lombardia Region. The policies and institutional strategies on landscape safeguard and improvement are summarised from the first laws and plans (’70 years) to the last landscape plan (approved in 2010). The paper stress also on the main difficulties in the landscape policies improvement: the actions implementation, the central role of the safeguard in terms of constrain, the lack of “active” and project of landscape, the difficulty to define a continuity across the different scale ... . In the ’90 the polices and instruments were implemented in a uncertainty framework due to the innovation in laws (on environment, landscape and planning) at the national level (new laws) and regional level (new regional laws on planning).
