Landscape practice

Landscapes (rural, urban and coastal) are complex interactions between people, other living things and the material environment. These interactions are at once a product of history and subject to change. Landscapes are known to us as economic resources, beautiful or degraded surroundings, places of cultural meanings and social values, natural habitats, and the media through which our everyday lives and relationships are played out. Landscape is a complex political field, and a significant concern for researchers, practitioners and policy makers. 

Our expertise in landscape practice covers these areas:

• Landscape policy: exploring the relationship between archaeological, environmental and other perspectives on the landscape and those of policy makers in local, national and international governments
  
  
• Landscape methodology: developing and refining methods of intensive and extensive survey; remote sensing (especially aerial archaeology); integrating different disciplinary methods; connecting methodological details to high-level research questions
  
  
• Landscape theory: applying theories such as phenomenology, relational landscapes landscape ethics to specific case studies across Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East

We have an MLitt in Landscape: Integrated Research and Practice, and a research group on Heritage, Philosophy and Practice which focuses of landscape protection, management and planning. 

Several of our research projects demonstrate this range of expertise in landscape practice:

• Cide Archaeological Project, Turkey
• Exploring the environs of Roman forts along the Antonine Wall
• Later prehistoric and Roman landscape of Western Transylvania, Romania
• Megalithic overkill: multiple stone rows
• Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot
• Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus
• Upper Clyde Valley