[posted on 19 September 2004]

Landscape conference in the islands of Lemnos and Lesbos

The Permanent European Conference for the Study of Rural Landscapes (PECSRL) was held this year on the Greek islands of Lemnos and Lesbos on 15-21 September. Ably organised by the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean, the conference gathered a large team of experts in archaeology, planning, landscape architecture, geography and the environment.

Some of the main themes of the conference were:

- cultural history of Mediterranean landscapes,

- land use policy and biodiversity conservation,

- theory and methodology of landscape research,

- tourism and the landscape.

Med-INA participated in the conference with a paper by Thymio Papayannis and Aphrodite Sorotou on ‘Mediterranean wetland landscapes: The case of Prespa Lakes’.