The effects originating from population growth, unplanned urbanization and industry are increasinglybeing felt in the present century and enhancing their pressure on the environment. These pressurescause degradation of landscapes and irreversible losses in areas with sensitive ecosystems such aswetlands. These losses brought the environmental concerns to the forefront and the necessity to takesteps in the international level accordingly. The European Landscape Convention, which was signed forthe purpose of developing an international language association on the identification, conservation,management and planning of landscapes, is one of the most important steps taken in this regard. Inaccordance with ELC; all of the parties promised to identify their landscapes, to determine thelandscape character types, and to monitor the change and transformation of the landscape. In thisstudy, landscape character assessment method, which has an important role in decision makingprocesses regarding planning, management, conservation and sustainable land use at Uluabat Lake andits surroundings, which is also a wetland with international importance, was used based on ELC, towhich our country is one of the parties. The study focused on the determination of landscape type andcharacter areas in landscape character analysis, which is a stage of landscape character assessmentmethod. The Ramsar buffer zone limits were considered while determining the working area. As a resultof the study which was supported by GIS techniques and land investigations, 229 landscape charactertypes and 7 landscape character areas were identified. Suggestions for sustainable land use weredeveloped by putting forth pressure elements on each landscape character area identified.