Underwater Seascapes From geographical to ecological perspectives [Hardcover]

While the European Landscape Convention adopted in Florence in 2000 by the European Council offers a public-action framework through a normative definition, the marine and submarine dimensions of landscapes are attracting growing interest from researchers worldwide. At a time when marine-conservation objectives are strongly endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, the French Marine Protected Areas Agency, a public institution under the governance of the French Ministry of the Environment, has gathered prominent experts to draft the very first interdisciplinary overview of underwater seascapes, so as to initiate and lend direction to a wider reflection on this emerging research topic.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a shared language: semantic exchanges and cross-disciplinary interaction.
Laurence Le Du-Blayo, Olivier Musard

Chapter 2. Underwater seascapes in the eye of the diver.
Olivier Musard

PART I: Exploring the diversity of underwater seascape representations and frameworks

Chapter 3. Landscape emerging: a developing object of study.
Olivier Musard, Laurence Le Du-Blayo, Camille Parrain, Christine Cl?ment

Chapter 4. Underwater landscape put to the test of law.
Jean-Pierre Beurier

Chapter 5. Underwater landscapes and implicit geology. Marseilles and the national Calanques park.
Jacques Collina-Girard

Chapter 6. Boreal submerged black sea landscapes.
Gilles Lericolais

Chapter 7. Gaze into the landscape: Can sensory immersion, landscape reading and design, and landscaping methods be adapted to the underwater landscape?
Charles Ronzani, Alain Freytet