ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the contemporary developments in landscape analysis which respond to the common features and, in certain respects, challenge them. It focuses on how landscape analysis can become more accessible and open to the communities that live and work in the landscapes undergoing change, and consider in particular the emerging idea of landscape democracy, asking how landscape analysis fits within a more open process of landscape decision-making. The chapter also focuses on how one can improve the way analysis is undertaken, and note how analysis itself has become a focus of scientific investigation, with a growing body of research that examines the process and methods of analysis. It also focuses on how the knowledge created through professional landscape analysis can make a greater contribution to understanding landscape values, change and decision-making, as part of the research activity of the discipline.
