On 2nd-5th September 2025, the “European Landscape Ecology Congress. Landscape Perspective in a Rapidly Changing World (IALE 2025)” will be hosted at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Dr Valentina Pescini is co-organizing the Session 2C, “Tracing Back Historical Land-Use and its Legacies: Common Insights and Perspectives of Landscape Archaeology and Historical Landscape Ecology”.
It is a joint session of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) and the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA).
The call for papers is now open until 14th March 2025.
If you want to participate in this fascinating session, just follow the link below to submit your proposal:
Call for Abstracts
SESSION ABSTRACT: Human impacts on the environment have a long history and understanding this may bring landscape ecology and landscape archaeology closer in a view to have a robust background and a proper perspective of the ongoing environmental changes, and identifies legacies. There are many questions and challenges easier to handle by bridging the two disciplines. Landscape archaeology, together with environmental disciplines (eg. palaeobotany), could help to understand millennia-scale human-environment interactions and long-term processes with its integrative approach using a range of methods from large-scale techniques like geoinformatics and LIDAR to microscopic analyses such as the study of wood charcoal and phytolith for example. This joint session of landscape ecologists of IALE and landscape archaeologists of IALA (International Association of Landscape Archaeology) brings together researchers to learn about each other’s methods and approaches and to identify common research interests and the possibilities for collaboration. The session will explore the effects of land-use and land management practices, as well as natural events over the past millennia. Topics may include the impacts of historical drainage systems and water regulations, major climatic periods and epidemics, volcanic eruptions, or the use of fire for pastoral or agricultural purposes. We are also calling for abstracts on the impact of wild and domesticated herbivores, long-distance livestock movements across European landscapes (e.g. the role of transhumance or cattle drives in landscape evolution), the agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystems across centuries, or the medieval ridge-and-furrow cultivation, and effects and legacies of other lost historical uses on the past or the present-day landscape and its habitats. As adapting to future landscape processes requires the integration of natural and social sciences, this platform will host inspiring research and debates on how the historical experiences of the two disciplines can be used to plan for a sustainable future with humans present in an improved biodiversity.
For more detailed information about the Congress, or sessions information, follow the links below:
iale2025.sav.sk
Sessions Information
