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  In the Global North the term landscape is commonly understood to be embedded with two definitions. These definitions revolve around the interrelationship between the inhabited landscape and the perceived, or objectified one.

Change is inherent in landscape. Barbara Bender's pleas 'for more open-ended theorizing that questions disciplinary boundaries and recognizes the untidiness and contradictoriness of human encounters with time and landscape.'

 Geographer Augustin Berque writes that landscape ‘relies on a collective form of subjectivity’, as researchers we have an opportunity to prod and question the narratives that have already been formed, and possibly even solidified in our collective consciousness. 

The dominant framings of landscape inform our understanding of them - these then inform how we perceive them. This leads to questions such as: are landscapes to be extracted or protected? How do we want them to change?

 'Land use decision-making in the UK  remains extremely fragmented and still insufficiently democratised...' writes Jeremy Burchardt. How can this change and power be shared?

 Landscape remains a concept tied to the visual. Jala Makhzoumi writes, ‘people are interested in landscapes predominantly for the pleasure of viewing and experiencing them’