The Latin American Landscape Research Network connects researchers and practitioners working across Latin America, creating a platform for exchange on landscape issues emerging from diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts. The network supports regionally grounded research while strengthening connections with the wider international Landscape Research Group community.
The network provides a space for collaborative discussion, knowledge sharing and the development of research themes relevant to Latin American landscapes. These may include relationships between people and territory, cultural and ecological understandings of landscape, and the pressures shaping landscapes across urban, rural and environmental contexts. The network encourages dialogue across disciplines and supports connections between research, practice and policy.
Activities may include informal discussions, seminars, collaborative exchanges and opportunities to share research, publications and events. The network also supports connections between institutions across Latin America and beyond, helping to build partnerships and strengthen visibility for landscape research emerging from the region. The network forms part of wider landscape research exchange across the Americas and internationally.
Participation is open to researchers and practitioners interested in landscape research across Latin America. Spanish and Portuguese are used as working languages, with English contributions welcomed where possible.
We welcome researchers and practitioners working across Latin America to connect with others, share ideas and contribute to regional dialogue. To express your interest or learn more about the network, please contact Ricardo Guerrerothe and his coordination team via their group email.
This thematic line proposes a fundamental debate on the different approaches to and perceptions of the relationship between landscape and territory in the Latin American context. There is a landscape for every individual who comes into contact with it. In this sense, we will examine two dominant positions in our relationship with this ecosystem: holistic visions of territory and those grounded in alterity—“I am one with the landscape” versus “the landscape exists out there.” One thematic approach is linked to cosmogony and cultural traditions, where territory is experienced and traversed as lived space.
Within a framework of increasing uncertainty—climate change, armed conflicts, sea-level rise, struggles over raw materials, and transformations in the ways data are used and produced—this line of research incor-porates studies, approaches, and findings that engage with cities and territories exposed to various forms of threat across different scales and specificities (social, cultural, ecological, etc.), whose resulting tensions ge-nerate spatial impacts.
Participation is open to anyone interested in landscape research in this region. You do not need to be an LRG member to take part.
LRG membership is encouraged for those wishing to connect more closely with the wider international community, funding opportunities and publications.
We welcome researchers and practitioners working across Latin America to connect with others, share ideas and contribute to regional dialogue. To express your interest or learn more about the network, please contact Ricardo Guerrerothe and his coordination team via their group email.
