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Multidisciplinary landscape studies create a unique opportunity to trace cultural and environmental transformations and move us closer to understanding the distance that humanity have covered for the hundreds thousands years of its development. This is because the cultural “multi-layer structure” is an inherent feature of landscape, making it a kind of a palimpsest. We invite you to participate in the first CLC meeting, during which we will try to bring together the efforts of specialists representing numerous disciplines that investigate, interpret, or create landscapes. We will be talking about definitions and understanding of landscape-related issues among people from different cultural milieus, discuss the role of landscape studies in examining the human past, and analyse the contemporary perception of landscape and methods of its protection and transformation. One of the most important objectives of the proposed conference is the theoretical and practical analysis of landscapes and their individual elements in various parts of the world. This also includes the identification and interpretation of contexts, connections, morphology and arrangement of material relics as well as intangible phenomena that nevertheless left their imprint in landscape, which will allow for a more comprehensive explanation of human behaviours and cultural processes, both in distant past and more recent times. An important position in our discussion will be given to so-called strategy of preventive conservation of cultural heritage, which ought to be inscribed into the ecological programme of environment protection. There will also be place for the attempts to define “environment” from holistic perspective, i.e. understood as a system of interrelated animate and inanimate elements, created by both human and nature. In this context one should emphasise the need to harmonise the actions aimed at preservation of nature with those targeted on cultural heritage, which are now often not coordinated and thus ineffective. Particular attention will be given to the notions of culture and nature and their ideological sources, as well as the issues of ecology and ecological awareness and the problems posed by setting the limits of human intervention in nature in protected areas. The CLC meetings will be distinguished by a complementary research approach, bringing together the methods from a range of fields such as humanities, natural sciences, exact sciences, art sciences, and technical sciences. Such an approach offers an opportunity to integrate different research perspectives oriented on investigating the “man-environment” interaction, the role of man in landscape transformations, and of landscape in shaping the patterns and mechanisms of culture. There were many shades and motives to these mutual interactions and relations, which in many aspects influenced human existence and shaped the present day picture of culture and environment. The conference idea is addressed to scientists and landscape specialists interested in general, wide landscape studies and in particular to: archaeologists, geographers, landscape architects, conservators, anthropo-geographers, historians, cultural anthropologists, theorists of culture, ethnologists, natural philosophers, environmentalists as well as other professionals who are dealing in their work with study or transformation of the landscape.