Landscape Economics

The purpose of this work is to define and present the analysis of data on the term “Landscape
Economics” in order to identify centers of knowledge generation and to assess its knowledge and
relevance. As part of this study, a concept has been theorized regarding the lack of due attention
to current scenario in the country with respect to the world and presented on the methods of
scientometric analysis of bibliographic data to determine the volume and distribution of scientific
publications across time and space.

Landscapes are places where memories are stored and recollected; they provide an anchor of
authenticity and identity in turbulent times of modernization and globalization. Landscape can
be defined as “an area, perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and
interaction of natural and/or human factors”. All of our historic city- and townscapes, polders,
reclaimed land and rural areas are the indelible stamp of our national identity and are loaded
with cultural memories. whenever one stands in the landscape, they stand within the thoughts
of “passed” people, especially in densely populated country like India. But when landscapes
change, these sites of collective memory –may disintegrate and disappear, together with nature
and heritage resources. And conversely, landscapes are changing in response to changing values;
many of the current urban and rural landscapes are the result of human preferences and
creations. This research focuses on the economic value of landscapes and provides the building
blocks for an economic analysis of landscapes. The current study will focus on the reviews and
our current understanding of the linkages between economics and landscape, and disentangles
the complex relations between the two. It pulls together bits and pieces from a wide assortment
of analyses directed at a theoretical and practical exploration of “landscape economics”.

At first, the term “economic landscape” was used in relation to the structures of economic space,
or the marketing zones of enterprises of different levels, forming a network of economic regions
with nodes in cities. According to P.Ya. Degtyarev, “the economic landscape is a segment of the
ecumene of any dimension (part of the space mastered by man)—a hierarchically organized
system of spatial gradients and positional boundaries that form around central places— the main
focuses of centrifugal and centripetal connections (flows)”. A hierarchically organized system of
spatial gradients is understood as force fields, which are due to the differentiation of costs, prices
and incomes of economic agents from place to place. A.A. Glumov believes that if we proceed
from the interpretation of the term landscape as a general picture, relief, or general view of, for
example, terrain then to the first approximation, the economic landscape is a general picture of
the state of the economy, which is formed under the influence of economic conditions and
factors and is a reflection of the result of their mutual influence and interdependence. With the
development of scientific regarding the economic landscape, experts began to highlight a
number of advantages to the landscape approach, including the possibility of a comprehensive
study of economic space that went beyond the administrative territorial division. To determine
the spatio-temporal distribution of scientific knowledge about the economic landscape in the
conditions of the formation of the post-industrial era, we consider it appropriate to turn to
scientometric methods.

Landscape Economics is a topic that is located near the boundary of the natural and social
sciences. As such, this research is meant for scholars of diverse interests, who wish to work on
interdisciplinary problems or whose work crosses interdisciplinary lines. Moreover, this research
is intended to assist planners, designers and policy makers in making informed decisions about
landscape design and planning. They have to make choices between different, and usually
competing, uses of the land. These choices will have impact on the character and quality of the
landscape. Having insight into the economic value of landscape can support practitioners inside
and outside government to allocate scare resources to achieve specific landscape goals.

Keywords: economic landscape, scientometrics, scientometric assessment, bibliometric data,

citation analysis, mapping