Intro: Justice, Power and the Political Landscape Kenneth R. Olwig and Don Mitchell

Part 1: Law, Polity and the Changing Meaning of Landscape

Editorial Kenneth R. Olwig

The Landscape of ‘Customary’ Law versus that of ‘Natural’ Law Kenneth R. Olwig

Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities: Navigating Justice and Law in the Low Countries Tom Mels

Planning and the Picturesque: A Case Study of the Dunedin District Plan and its Application to the Management of the Landscape of the Otago Peninsula Marion Read

Turning Social Relations into Space: Property, Law and the Plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico Don Mitchell & Lynn A. Staeheli.

Lawyering Landscapes: Lawyers as Constituents of Landscape Deborah G. Martin & Alexander Scherr.

Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design Anne Whiston Spirn.

Conflict between Global and Local Land-Use Values in Latvia’s Gauja National Park Gregory Taff

Part 2: From American Space to the European Landscape Convention

Editorial Kenneth R. Olwig & Don Mitchell

The Geographies of a More Just Food System: Building Landscapes for Social Reproduction Carrie Breitbach.

Work, Struggle, Death, and Geographies of Justice: The Transformation of Landscape in and beyond California’s Imperial Valley Don Mitchell

The Practice of Landscape ‘Conventions’ and the Just Landscape: The Case of the European Landscape Convention Kenneth R. Olwig.

The ‘‘Landscape Must Become the Law’’—Or Should It? Gert Groening

The European Landscape Convention and the Question of Public Participation Michael Jones.

Living with and Looking at Landscape David Lowenthal

Christo’s Gates and Gilo’s Wall W.J.T. Mitchell

About the Author

Swedish University of Life Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden University of Syracuse, USA

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