Our Strategy
Image Credit: Camilla Martini, The right to be vulnerable: seawalls, resistances and protest movements in post-tsunami Japan (2021)
Our Research Strategy
Our current Research Strategy was launched in 2017, our 50th anniversary year, and the themes chosen to reflect the 21st century challenges we and our world face.
We promote a landscape approach because it emphasises the holistic, dynamic and cultural nature of people’s interaction with the world. A landscape approach also calls on a wide range of disciplines, sectors and perspectives.
The concept of landscape integrates different and, often, competing perceptions and uses of resources and the environment. Taking a landscape approach is necessary to address the major challenges facing humanity today such as climate change, migration and population growth, finding sustainable energy futures, large scale ecosystem destruction, poverty and inequality.
We have identified four strategic research priorities:
- Landscape justice
- Rapid environmental change
- Landscape governance
- Critical & creative landscape thinking
These fields are not neatly bounded, but overlap and connect with each other. They cut across and connect individual disciplinary and sectorial domains.
Read more on each theme in our full Research Strategy (PDF, 2.6MB).
If you are interested in finding out more about LRG’s research strategy please contact LRG’s Research & Policy Co-ordinator research@landscaperesearch.org.
