Research themes
Twelve themes in four families organise everything in the Exchange, from the journal to the newest field notes. Each is a subject page in its own right: an introduction to the field, the latest work in it, and the networks and events carrying it forward.
Environment & change
How landscapes absorb, resist and register environmental change.
Climate and resilience
Environmental stress, climate change, adaptation and resilience.
Ecology and biodiversity
Ecosystems, species, habitats, conservation, ecological relationships.
Energy landscapes
Energy systems, infrastructure and landscape transformation.
Society, power & place
Who decides what a landscape is for, and who gets to belong in it.
Landscape governance
Policy, law, institutions, planning and management.
Landscape justice
Power, rights, access, inequality, dispossession, inclusion.
Borders and boundaries
Territoriality, divisions, displacement, borders, liminality.
Landscape types & relationships
Particular kinds of landscape, and what people take from and give to them.
Urban landscape
Cities, settlements, public space, urban landscape systems.
Agro-social landscapes
Agriculture, food systems, rural socio-ecological land.
Health and therapeutic landscapes
Landscape and wellbeing.
Culture, knowledge & practice
Landscape as meaning, memory and method.
Cultural heritage
Landscape as memory, identity and historical continuity.
Environmental humanities
Landscape as meaning, narrative and philosophical inquiry.
Methods and methodologies
How landscape research is conducted.