Strategies for enhancing landscape architecture research

This paper proposes strategies to develop landscape architecture research. Academics and practitioners are increasingly recognising how professional practice and education benefit from fundamental and applied research. Universities, at least in some countries, have also been stressing the need for doing high quality research and for publishing results in international peer reviewed journals. Setting standards and developing a common body of knowledge are necessary conditions for improving the quality of study programmes and for establishing the field at large. From this perspective PhD programmes in particular call for attention (3rd Bologna Cycle). ...