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Green conservatism
The Landscape Guardian
«Protect the landscape, protect the homeland.»
Treats nature and the landscape as a heritage to preserve, like traditions: environmental protection rooted in local attachment rather than global planning.
In short
On the traditional scale, this ideology sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on environment: strongly towards “ecology”; society: strongly towards “tradition”; method: strongly towards “reform”; devolution: fairly towards “federalism”. On foreign policy and democracy it stays balanced. Among the other ideologies, the closest is communitarianism (94%).
Principles
- Stewardship of land and landscape
- Local roots
- Caution toward change
Protecting nature, the landscape and local communities as part of tradition.
Common criticisms
Where it comes from
It draws on John Ruskin and the landscape conservation movement; today it inspires parts of the environmentally minded European right.
Key figures: Edmund Burke, Roger Scruton
Further reading: How to Be a Conservative — Roger Scruton; Green Philosophy — Roger Scruton
Position on the 13 axes
Similar ideologies
CommunitarianismThe Good Neighbor94%Constitutional monarchismThe Loyalist88%Christian conservatismThe Pilgrim87%Closest parties in Europe
Noi ModeratiItaly91%
KDU-ČSLCzech Republic90%
Kresťanskodemokratické hnutieSlovakia89%
Kristelig FolkepartiNorway89%Closest figures
Positions are estimates based on documented ideas, platforms and actions, updated to October 2026.