Cultural landscape as subject to national research programmes in Denmark

This article reviews how research focusing on cultural landscapes in Denmark is conducted within the framework of relevant Danish research programmes that emerged in the 1990s. Projects under environmental and agricultural research programmes with a total research budget of approximately 96 million ECU are analysed, and a method is applied to classify the individual research projects into 11 categories, according to their scientific focus. Results show that studies related to the landscape are of increasing importance, and that multidisciplinarity in research programmes has become supplementary to research that focuses on a certain component of the environment (air, water, soil) or is monodisciplinary. In addition to studies that could be expected to form a substantial part of landscape research, such as agricultural, environmental and landscape ecology studies, the cultural landscape research in Denmark is characterised by the involvement of the humanities and social sciences: History, Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Economics.