Landscape Conflicts: Introduction

Conflicts about what can be socially understood as ‘landscape’ are as numerous and ambiguous as the terms ‘landscape’ and ‘conflict’ themselves. This concerns fields of conflict such as ‘rural areas’, ‘city and urban landscape’, ‘energy landscapes’ as well as ‘digitalization and media’. Often, such fields of conflict manifest different claims, inscriptions, and interpretations of what can or may be seen together as ‘landscape’. For some years now, several conflict-theoretical approaches have been developed not only in spatial sciences but also in landscape sciences. In this anthology, an exemplary selection of theoretical approaches to ‘landscape conflicts’ is presented and practical examples in the mentioned fields of conflict are collected.