Magalhães, Maria Manuela RaposoBaldaia, Selma PenaFerreira, Ana Isabel Verissimo2015-03-172015-03-172014Ferreira, A.I.V. - A conservação da natureza como política pública e instrumento de protecção e sustentabilidade da paisagem. Caso de estudo: Baixo Alentejo e Algarve. Lisboa: ISA, 2014, 139 p.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8216Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe concept of Conservation of Nature has always been implicit in the Man’s thoughts throughout his existence through direct or indirect actions in order to protect the environment where he lives. Environmental Policies and Nature Conservation Strategies and Instruments are a part of these actions, which, over time, have undergone evolutionary processes through the inclusion of new concepts in the world panorama, such as Sustainable Development and Biodiversity. In the first part of this paper, a synthesis about the evolutionary process of the concept of Nature Conservation and of the Environmental Policies is presented in three distinct levels: Global, European and National. Subsequently, in this paper, the different Nature Conservation Strategies and Nature Conservation Instruments, which undertake the protection of nature, were characterized. The case study allows the analysis of the inclusion of Nature Conservation Instruments in a smaller area, facilitating the analysis of how the instruments insert themselves in the national territory and the relationships that they have between each other in a certain biophysical areapornature conservationenvironmental policybiodiversityBaixo AlentejoAlgarvemaster thesis201845300