The Cultural Landscape Commission of the Polish Geographical Society publishes the biannual journal
Dissertations of the Cultural Landscape Commission (PKKK) since 2002. According to the 2019 journal evaluation,
its content primarily represents socio-economic geography, spatial management, cultural and religious studies.
ISSN: 1896-1460 (print) • e-ISSN: 2391-5293 (online)
Frequency: Semi-annual
Submission: krajobraz.kulturowy@us.edu.pl
Languages: Polish / English
Court registry no.: PR 20 541
Dissertations of the Cultural Landscape Commission – Concept
Dissertations of the Cultural Landscape Commission is an interdisciplinary journal—cross-disciplinary due to its multifaceted subject: the cultural landscape. It is aimed primarily at geographers, landscape ecologists, and landscape architects. The key distinguishing feature and necessary criterion of published texts is their spatial approach to analyzed phenomena and processes. Authors accept the definition of “landscape” from the European Landscape Convention—as an area perceived by people, whose character results from the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors.
Landscape analyses may be conducted from either a typological or a regional perspective.
Methodological and theoretical-methodological studies are especially welcome. Given the journal’s bilingual nature and the opportunity for international dissemination, submissions involving collaboration with foreign researchers are prioritized.
Published articles should address the following characteristics of landscape:
- a fragment of space that can be presented on a map or in a 2D/3D model;
- the physiognomy of the terrain, which can be depicted in a drawing, photograph, or 3D visualization;
- a dynamic system whose functioning depends on its components, the relationships between them, and the dominant processes;
- an evolutionary arrangement undergoing transformation and metamorphosis with a clear, reproducible history, based on the analysis of cultural stratifications (stratigraphy and landscape biography) and temporal changes in landscape-forming factors (e.g., geological-geomorphological, climatic-hydrological, botanical-soil, historical-cultural including religious, socio-economic, political, administrative-legal, biopsychological, demographic, technological, etc.).
Articles should also consider landscape as a research subject in these aspects:
- landscape as a set of physical objects (aggregation of abiotic, biotic, and anthropogenic subsystems) with defined composition (physical, chemical, biological) and form (relief and texture, and for anthropogenic elements, their specific composition);
- landscape as a system of interconnected processes (ecological, geomorphological, hydrological, social, economic, etc.) integrating physical objects;
- landscape as a set of stimuli affecting the observer’s senses, particularly views and panoramas of specified aesthetic value;
- landscape as a set of values (potentials)—natural, social, economic, material, spiritual, historical, physiognomic, aesthetic, symbolic, and others;
- a system providing current and potential services to various user groups.
The Editorial Board guarantees a relatively swift publication process (the waiting time for accepted texts is 2–4 months).
Indexing databases
- Arianta Scientific and Industry Polish Electronic Journals
- CGP Current Geographical Publications
- ERIH PLUS European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Google Scholar
- Index Copernicus International
- PBN Polish Scientific Bibliography
License
The electronic version of the journal (e-ISSN: 2391-5293) is its reference edition. Individual articles of
Dissertations of the Cultural Landscape Commission are made available for educational purposes on the journal’s website under an Open Access formula, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.