ABSTRACT
As noted in the previous chapter, an appreciation of landscape must go ‘beyond the view’. The landscape we see is merely the surface manifestation of consolidated deposits of materials, practices and memories, and a dynamic regime of natural and societal systems. Human survival and well-being is reliant on these systems, yet there are concerns that their sustainability and resilience may have been compromised by progressive disconnection and disruption. Many authors have noted that landscape structures and systems deliver a range of functions, services and values (de Groot et al., 2002; de Groot, 2006; Haines-Young and Potschin, 2009; Willemen et al., 2010). However, these terms have been used ambiguously and inconsistently, and this chapter sets the scene by looking more closely at their meaning and significance.
