Peyzaj Araştırmaları DerneğTurkish Landscape Research Society

The goals and objectives of the society:

• To approach natural and cultural components together pursuant to landscape scale; to emphasise flows and functions existing in the landscape and to preserve this structure with human and all the other living and non-living things in landscape; to contribute to transfer these components to next generations and to mold public opinion about these issues;
• To evaluate every human activity affecting natural and cultural landscapes from a social and ecological benefit point of view and to reconstruct these activities within this regard;
• To redefine human needs within place perception, to approach production/consumption patterns pursuant to resource management and to enhance and spread technologies, architecture, life styles that fits that management best.

Some of the interest areas and issues of PAD

• Natural landscape
• Cultural landscape
• Protected areas
• Industrial areas
• Landscape ecology
• Landscape quality
• Urban areas
• Urban accessibility
• Urban design
• Urban regeneration and renewal
• Urban open-green spaces
• Landscape perception
• Landscape philosophy
• Landscape restoration
• Landscape planning and management
• Rural areas and agricultural landscape
• Watershed management
• Coastal area management
• Historical and archeological areas
• Wetlands
• Natural vegetation and flora
• International conventions related to landscape
• Remote sensing and GIS
• Subjects related to landscape in neighbouring disciplines such as architecture, sociology, biology, geology, geography, urban and regional planning, agricultural engineering.