Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History is a peer-reviewed, open access academic journal dedicated to interdisciplinary landscape research. Rural Landscapes aims to be a leading academic forum for the blending, contrasting and bridging of historical and contemporary landscape studies and environmental and societal perspectives on rural landscape change in all parts of the world. The journal accepts contributions from a broad range of interdisciplinary research fields, such as historical ecology, political ecology, rural development, landscape ecology, historical geography, palaeo-ecology, landscape studies etc.