How researchers shape the construction of landscape change – insights from a scenario study

Andrea Knierim, Claudia Bieling and Peter Zander

Landscape Research, 2021, vol. 46, issue 8, 1057-1070

Abstract: Studying landscape change has taken on increased importance, for instance, in the context of enhancing the sustainable intensification of agricultural production. As sustainability-oriented landscape research necessitates inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, the influence that researchers exert through constructing and applying conceptual bases and methods merits particular attention. We address this issue with a multifaceted understanding of power, and apply three analytical lenses to the example of a regional, landscape-related scenario study. We found that without an interdisciplinary framework that fosters integration and explicit cooperation procedures, researchers exert individual ‘power to’ by adhering to well-known disciplinary methods. Also, we observed a mobilisation of ‘power with’ through a certain level of transdisciplinary cooperation. We recommend a rigorous specification and application of joint conceptual bases, their disclosure and an ongoing reflection on inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation procedures to ensure the transparency of researchers’ influence in studies on landscape change.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2021.1940116

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