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

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 developed a seminar for senior researchers and doctoral students, titled: Reassessing Landscape Drivers and the Globalist Environmental Agenda. The seminar was 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 presented the keynote address.

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