Landscape and Sustainable Development: The French Perspective

About Peter HowardYves Luginbühl

Peter Howard is a geographer who studied at Newcastle and later at Exeter. He taught landscape ideas to students of art and design and later ran degree courses in landscape and heritage at Plymouth University. He is now Visiting Professor of Cultural Landscapes at Bournemouth UK Yves Luginbuhl is a Researcher at CNRS Paris France and Daniel Terrasson works for CEMAGREF and IRSTEA France. Yves Luginbühl is an agronomic engineer and geographer emeritus director of research at CNRS co-editor of the European Landscape Convention member of the Scientific Committee of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity and president of the Scientific Committees for research programmes into landscape of the Ministry of Ecology Sustainable Development and Energy. He is a member of the National Committee of Scientific Research (CNRS). His most recent book La Mise en Scène du Monde won the Eduard Bonnefous prize of the Academy of Sciences. Peter Howard is a geographer and now a Visiting Professor of Cultural Landscape at Bournemouth University UK. He was editor of Landscape Research for many years and founded the International Journal of Heritage Studies. He has written extensively on issues both of Landscape and of Heritage including his latest book An Introduction to Landscape. He is a member of the French scientific committee responsible for this book and a member of the Ramsar Culture Network. Daniel Terrasson is an agronomist and Engineer General of Bridges Waters and Forests now in retirement. Laurent Bélanger Head of Unit at the Research and Innovation Directorate of the French Ministry of Ecology has charge of the programme Landscape and Sustainable Development and participated to the coordination of this English language version. Gérard Guillaumin of this Unit and now in retirement participated in the coordination of the French version.