About Landscape

What is a Landscape?

The relationship between people and place represents landscape in this study.

Landscape provides the setting for our day-to-day activities. Landscape results from the way that different components of our environment – both natural (influences of geology, soils, climate, plants and animals) and cultural (historical and current land use, settlement) – interact and are perceived by people (see diagram below). People’s perceptions turn land into landscape. The concept of 'country' in aboriginal culture has similarities to the concept of landscape. Country also includes people and their relationship to the land, water and air.

The concept of landscape (Source: Countryside Agency, 2002).

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