ABSTRACT
Landscape becomes an essential ingredient for structuring the material social relations that make up the world. Although it has been demonstrably influential, a focus on Sauer risks focusing on Anglo-American Geography, and does not do justice to the rich European literature on culture and landscape. The works of man express themselves in the cultural landscape. There may be a succession of these landscapes with a succession of cultures. The critique of Sauerian approaches has broadened the subject matter of cultural geography far beyond the physical expression of culture in the landscape. Literature searches on ‘cultural landscape’ now throw up many more references in physical geography, palaeoecology and archaeology than human geography. Although the concept of cultural landscape seems to carry too much baggage within human geography, it is increasingly used within land management agencies as a means of recognizing and managing landscapes with profound human signatures.
