Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to landscape research and interdisciplinary communication. Rural Landscapes aims to be a leading academic forum for the blending, contrasting and bridging of contemporary and historical landscape studies that engage with environmental and societal perspectives on rural landscapes in all parts of the world.
The journal accepts contributions from a broad range of research fields, such as historical ecology, political ecology, rural development, landscape ecology, palaeo-ecology, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, history, agriculture, forestry and geography.
A forum for cutting-edge research, Rural Sociology (RS) explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging issues, new approaches to recurring questions and material, and policy relevant discussions of changes in local and global systems affecting rural people and places. In addition to its long-time interest in sociological approaches to understanding the challenges facing rural people and places, RS also publishes scholarly work on a variety of more specific issues such as community revitalization, rural demographic changes, rural poverty, natural resource conflicts, environmental impacts, and the structure of food and agricultural production.