The Landscape Research Group is concerned with all types and aspects of landscape, from wilderness to cities. It is a voluntary, charitable association, based in Britain but with a world-wide membership. Its purpose is to encourage the exchange of ideas and to promote research and practices that engage landscape and environment. It does this by sponsoring public programmes and conferences. As well as through the publication of the Routledge Journal Landscape Research and the Newsletter Landscape Research Extra.

The Landscape Research Group address a wide variety of interests, disciplines and professions . Whatever your involvement with landscape - as an agriculturist, artist, botanist, conservationist, cultural historian, environmental philosopher, geographer, hiker, landscape architect, landscape ecologist, open space activist, land planner, tree hugger, urban gardener or wetland expert... or simply as someone who cares seriously about our natural surroundings - why not become a member of the Landscape Research Group?

LRG News
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Register here for this conference on the European Landscape Convention.
Gareth Roberts is representing LRG and working in partnership with: IRES Piemonte (It) – Local Worlds European Ecomuseum Network, Town of Nove Hrady (CR), Rozmberk Society on the 1st European Conference on: Local implementation of the European Landscape Convention. To be held in Hove Hrady, South Bohemia, Czech Republic on 27-30 May, 2009. Registration fees are 100 € for early registration before March 15 (50 € for CEE countries); registration fees after March 15 will be 175 € (100 € for CEE countries).. See the website for more details. Gareth also provides the following links for those interested in the ELC.

New Chair: The former Editor of Landscape Research, Dr Ian Thompson has been elected as our new chair. For a overview of Ian's interests and intentions see this manifesto, which he shared with the Directors prior to his election. We are all quite pleased that he has decided to take this on.

The LRG report on the European Landscape Convention Conference hosted by LRG and the University of Sheffield is available. It features analysis of the opportunity by Prof Michael Dower and a closing review by Prof Adrian Phillips. The report is a critical overview of current activities in Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden. The report concludes with a paper by Riccardo Priore, Director of the European Network of Local and Regional Bodies for the Application of the European Treaty on the Landscape.

LRG Director Maggie Roe, informs us of her co-authored research contribution on the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention for Natural England. Her report also provides background for the The Landscape Institute's work on the ELC; there is also has a new LI position statement on Green infrastructure.

LRG Director Dr Ian Thompson has recently published two new books: European Landscape Architecture and Rethinking Landscape: A Critical Reader.

2009 LRG Programmes and Events
Landscape Research Group
Working with the Nordic Landscape Research Network (NLRN) we are developing a seminar for senior researchers and doctoral students, titled: Reassessing Landscape Drivers and the Globalist Environmental Agenda. The seminar will be held in conjunction with the Council of Europe’s international Workshop on The European Landscape Convention at Alnarp, Sweden,  8-9th October, 2009. Shelley Egoz, of the School of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand will be presenting the keynote address. The CALL FOR PAPERS IS CURRENT, Deadline 1 June 2009.

2008-09 Conferences, Seminars and Programmes
International Friends of Nature
In association with the Polish Tourist Country Lovers’ Society (PTTK) – Cracow Academic Section; the Institute of Tourism and Recreation, Academy of Physical Education, Cracow In co-operation with: Góry Stołowe National Park ( The Sudetes). Will host the Fourth International Seminar on Mountain Tourism, titled 'Mountain Tourism in Natura 2000 Areas: Conflict or Opportunity'. To be held in Kudowa Zdrój (Poland) from the 22 – 25 October 2009. There is a call for papers, although dates are unclear.

LINKS
- Landscape Europe Net international conference links.
- Landscape Observatory of Catalonia International Activities links.

- RSA Arts and Ecology international art exhibition and event links.
- Greenmuseum.org international art exhibitions and conference links.
- Landscape and Art Network, programmes, exhibitions and conference links