1. Introduction
More than 25 years ago Jackson (1984) described landscape as
the field where humans and nature joust for time. Jackson’s insight
grew out of his study of vernacular landscapes, which he identified
as the product of “local custom, pragmatic adaptation to circumstances,
and unpredictable mobility” (p. xii). By characterizing the
landscape as “where we speed up or retard or divert the cosmic program
and impose our own” and calling for a “new ordering of time”
(p. 157), he underscored his claim that humans make all landscapes