Cultural landscape as subject to national research programmes in Denmark

This article reviews how research focusing on cultural landscapes in Denmar k is conducted within the framework of relevant Danish research programmes that emerged in the 1990s. Projects under environmental and agricultural re search programmes with a total research budget of approximately 96 million ECU are analysed, and a method is applied to classify the individual resear ch projects into 11 categories, according to their scientific focus. Result s show that studies related to the landscape are of increasing importance, and that multidisciplinarity in research programmes has become supplementar y to research that focuses on a certain component of the environment (air, water, soil) or is monodisciplinary. In addition to studies that could be e xpected to form a substantial past of landscape research, such as agricultu ral, environmental and landscape ecology studies, the cultural landscape re search in Denmark is characterised by the involvement of the humanities and social sciences: History, Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Economics. (C) 199 4 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.