Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
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The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) is an international network of landscape
researchers whose interest focus on the past, present and future of European landscapes; and serves as an international platform for new initiatives, meetings and publications about European rural landscapes.
It meets every two years in a different European country for lectures, discussions, working groups and landscape excursions. It has several working groups that focus on actual problems in European landscape management and landscape research. The unifying concept of PECSRL is the past, present and future of European landscapes, relating to landscape research as well as landscape policy and landscape management.
Landscape
Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
researchers whose interest focus on the past, present and future of European landscapes; and serves as an international platform for new initiatives, meetings and publications about European rural landscapes.
It meets every two years in a different European country for lectures, discussions, working groups and landscape excursions. It has several working groups that focus on actual problems in European landscape management and landscape research. The unifying concept of PECSRL is the past, present and future of European landscapes, relating to landscape research as well as landscape policy and landscape management.
Objectives
The objectives of PECSRL are:- to facilitate personal contacts and information exchange between European landscape researchers;
- to improve interdisciplinary cooperation between landscape researchers from various scientific and human landscape disciplines;
- to improve cooperation between landscape researchers and landscape managers;
- to function as a platform for new initiatives in European landscape research and landscape management.
History and scope
The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape is one of the most stable European networks of landscape researchers. It was established in 1957 at an inaugural conference held in Nancy, France. Initially, it consisted mainly of historical geographers, but during the last few decades its membership has diversified to include ecologists, social scientists, rural planners, landscape architects, human geographers, physical geographers, historians, archaeologists, landscape managers, as well as other scholars and practitioners interested in European landscapes. Members undertake both fundamental and applied research on all aspects of the rural landscape or have a position in landscape management or heritage management. PECSRL covers Pan-Europe which means that it connects researchers from Northern, Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Europe. All together more than thirty European countries take part in PECSRL.Conferences
- 23rd Session: "Landscapes, identities and development", Lisbon and Óbidos, Portugal, 01 – 05 September 2008
- 22nd Session: "European rural future“: Landscape as an interface", 2006, Berlin and Schloss Hubertusstock (Germany)
- 21st Session: "One region, many stories - Mediterranean landscapes in a changing Europe", 2004, Limnos and Lesvos (Greece)
- 20th Session: "Rural landscapes: past processes - future strategies", 2002, Tartu and Otepää (Estonia)
- 19th Session: "European landscapes, from mountain to sea", 2000, London and Aberystwyth (United Kingdom)
- 18th Session: "Shaping the land", 1998, Røros and Trondheim (Norway)
- 17th Session, 1996, Dublin (Ireland)
- 16th Session: "Rural landscape between State and Local Communities", 1994, Torino (Italy)
- 15th Session: "L'avenir des paysages ruraix européens", 1992, Lyon (France)
- 14th Session: "The transformation of the European rural landscape", 1990, Baarn and Ghent (The Netherlands / Belgium)
- 13th Session, 1987, Stockholm (Sweden)
- 12th Session, 1985, Rastede and Hagen (Federal Republic of Germany)
- 11th Session, 1981, Durham and Cambridge (England)
- 10th Session, 1979, Roskilde (Denmark)
- 9th Session, 1977, Rennes and Quimper (France)
- 8th Session, 1975, Warsaw (Poland)
- 7th Session, 1973, Perugia (Italy)
- 6th Session, 1971, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
- 5th Session, 1969, Liège (Belgium)
- 4th Session, 1966, Würzburg (Federal Republic of Germany)
- 3rd Session, 1964, Birmingham (England)
- 2nd Session, 1960, Vadstena (Sweden)
- 1st Session, 1957, Nancy (France)
See also
- LandscapeLandscapeLandscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
- Cultural landscapeCultural landscapeCultural Landscapes have been defined by the World Heritage Committee as distinct geographical areas or properties uniquely "..represent[ing] the combined work of nature and of man.."....
- Landscape planningLandscape planningLandscape planning is a branch of landscape architecture. Urban park systems and greenway of the type planned by Frederick Law Olmsted are key examples of urban landscape planning. Landscape designers tend to work for clients who wish to commission construction work...
- European Landscape ConventionEuropean Landscape ConventionThe European Landscape Convention, also known as the Florence Convention, was initiated by the Congress of Regional and Local Authorities of the Council of Europe...