About the Centre for Landscape

We're pushing boundaries in how we think about both integrative and holistic concepts of landscape, by examining:

• landscape types (rural, urban, peri-urban, coastal and maritime)
• qualities (protected, ordinary, derelict)
• key concepts. These include governance and justice, economic success, social and ecological health and wellbeing. Also place attachment and meanings, and rapid environmental change

We're addressing global challenges through landscape studies, including:

• investigation of cultures and their landscapes
• innovative science investigating people’s relationships with past, present and future landscapes
• engagement with the strategic development of future landscape policy, planning and sustainability

We're fostering the development of transdisciplinary teams and future leaders, through:

• the development of innovative methods and support programmes. And by building citizen science, co-production and collaborative approaches. 

We work with a wide range of people:

• communities
• artists
• landscape managers
• policy-makers
• built environment professionals
• NGOs
• SMEs
• industry, and others
• academic partners. In particular, building capacity among early stage researchers

We're enabling international excellence in landscape research, through:

• new and existing international partnerships, exchanges, communication, debate and dissemination
• by considering local, regional, national and international landscape identities, people and ecologies