Network
European
This network connects researchers and practitioners working across Europe, spanning EU and non-EU countries, including the UK and Eire.
About this network
The European Landscape Research Network connects researchers and practitioners working across Europe, providing a platform for exchange on shared landscape challenges, research approaches and policy contexts. The network supports dialogue across countries, disciplines and traditions, recognising the diversity of European landscapes and the value of cross-border collaboration.
The network builds on existing European-focused activities within the Landscape Research Group, including regional coffee sessions, workshops and collaborative events. It provides a space to share research, develop partnerships and explore themes relevant to European landscape contexts, from governance and planning to climate adaptation, cultural landscapes and societal transition.
The European network also supports multilingual participation and encourages engagement from across the continent. It aims to connect academic researchers, practitioners, early-career scholars and institutions working in landscape-related fields, while strengthening links between European initiatives and the wider international LRG community.
Activities may include European coffee hours, thematic discussions, collaborative exchanges and promotion of events, publications and funding opportunities. The network also provides a foundation for future sub-regional or language-based initiatives where appropriate.
Participation is open to anyone interested in landscape research across Europe. English is used as a practical working language, with contributions in other European languages welcomed where possible.
Coordinators
Amrita Slatch
Network Lead
University of Gloucestershire
Sarah Lawton
Network Lead
Landscape Research Group
Email Sarah LawtonWhat we are working on
- Landscape governance and policy across European contexts
- Cross-border landscapes and transnational planning challenges
- Cultural landscapes and heritage management in Europe
- Climate adaptation and landscape resilience
- Energy transition landscapes (wind, solar, infrastructure)
- Agricultural landscapes and rural transition
- Rewilding, conservation and multispecies landscapes
- Tourism landscapes and visitor pressure in sensitive environments
- Infrastructure development and landscape change
- Urban–rural relationships and peri-urban transformation
- Landscape justice, access and public participation
- Landscape narratives, language and representation
- Landscape planning traditions across European countries
- Biodiversity recovery and nature-based solutions
- Water landscapes, flooding and coastal adaptation
- Mountain, forest and agricultural land-use transitions
- Landscape and identity in regional and national contexts
- Methods and approaches in European landscape research
- Policy-led landscape change (e.g. environmental land management)
- Interdisciplinary collaboration between research and practice
Recent activity
Take part
We welcome researchers and practitioners working across Europe to connect with others, share ideas and contribute to regional dialogue. To join in and participate with this networks’ informal gatherings, please sign up to the European Coffee Hour mailing list. To express your interest or learn more about how you can help us develop this network, please contact LRG directly.
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Article
Farming in Hampshire: National Pilot
The article provides a regionally grounded example of rural land management and governance issues relevant to shared discussions across the European landscape research community.
Other
Dunkerque Creative Outputs
Critical and creative landscape thinking from an LRG Critical Field Study event
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Isle of Arran, Critical Field Study, Creative Responses
Isle of Arran, Critical Field Study, Creative Responses
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Conservation and Multispecies Relations in Contemporary European Tourism Environments
This article analyses the language and landscape implications of major infrastructure development by HS2 Ltd in the United Kingdom,
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