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‘‘Landskab’ (Danish), Landschaft’ (German), ‘Landschap’ (Dutch) and ‘Landscipe’ (Old English) combine two roots : ‘Land’ designates both a place and the people living there. ‘Skabe’ and ‘schaffen’ mean ‘to shape’ and in Dutch the word ‘schappen’ used to convey a magisterial sense of shaping.
What we commonly refer to as a landscape is more than just a natural scene; it's a complex construct shaped by tangible realities of both the physical land and its people. Despite this, defining a landscape is tricky—it doesn't have clear boundaries and isn't inherently tied to nature, …