Chapter 1
Introduction: Towards a Shared Language:
Semantic Exchanges and Cross-disciplinary
Interaction
Laurence Le Dû-Blayo and Olivier Musard
Abstract Any interdisciplinary undertaking demands a comparison of the paradigms
and vocabulary specific to each scientific corpus involved, particularly where
the concept—landscape—is complex and applied to a difficult environment—the
underwater world. For this first cross-disciplinary work focussing exclusively on “underwater landscapes”, certain methods and epistemological reference frameworks
must therefore be put into perspective in order to mitigate the impact of partitioned
and partitioning cultural schemas on this combined approach to the “underwater
landscape”. This general introduction thus establishes a preliminary basis for the subsequent chapters herein but also provides illustration of a complex, cross-disciplinary
pathway of reflection transcending the three-part development selected.
Keywords Paradigm · Epistemology · European Landscape Convention ·
Landscape ecology · Coastal zone · Mountain · Representations · Connectivity ·
Mapping · Scuba diving
1.1 Introduction
There is no shortage of questions
1 surrounding such a complex concept (Antrop
2013): is the landscape approach within the meaning of the European Landscape
Convention appropriate in the underwater world? Can the underwater environment
1 This introduction builds on reflection initiated in Olivier Musard’s thesis (2003) and the article
written in 2007 in collaboration with Jérˆ ome Fournier and Jean-Pierre Marchand (Musard et al.
2007).
L. Le Dû-Blayo ()
UMR CNRS ESO 6590, Université de Rennes 2, place H. Le Moal, CS 24307,
35043 Rennes Cedex, France
e-mail: laurence.ledu@univ-rennes2.fr
O. Musard
Agence des aires marines protégées, 16 quai de la Douane, CS 42932,
29229 BREST Cedex 2, France
e-mail: olivier.musard@aires-marines.fr
O. Musard et al. (eds.), Underwater Seascapes, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03440-9_1,
1
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Introduction: Towards a Shared Language:
Semantic Exchanges and Cross-disciplinary
Interaction
Laurence Le Dû-Blayo and Olivier Musard
Abstract Any interdisciplinary undertaking demands a comparison of the paradigms
and vocabulary specific to each scientific corpus involved, particularly where
the concept—landscape—is complex and applied to a difficult environment—the
underwater world. For this first cross-disciplinary work focussing exclusively on “underwater landscapes”, certain methods and epistemological reference frameworks
must therefore be put into perspective in order to mitigate the impact of partitioned
and partitioning cultural schemas on this combined approach to the “underwater
landscape”. This general introduction thus establishes a preliminary basis for the subsequent chapters herein but also provides illustration of a complex, cross-disciplinary
pathway of reflection transcending the three-part development selected.
Keywords Paradigm · Epistemology · European Landscape Convention ·
Landscape ecology · Coastal zone · Mountain · Representations · Connectivity ·
Mapping · Scuba diving
1.1 Introduction
There is no shortage of questions
1 surrounding such a complex concept (Antrop
2013): is the landscape approach within the meaning of the European Landscape
Convention appropriate in the underwater world? Can the underwater environment
1 This introduction builds on reflection initiated in Olivier Musard’s thesis (2003) and the article
written in 2007 in collaboration with Jérˆ ome Fournier and Jean-Pierre Marchand (Musard et al.
2007).
L. Le Dû-Blayo ()
UMR CNRS ESO 6590, Université de Rennes 2, place H. Le Moal, CS 24307,
35043 Rennes Cedex, France
e-mail: laurence.ledu@univ-rennes2.fr
O. Musard
Agence des aires marines protégées, 16 quai de la Douane, CS 42932,
29229 BREST Cedex 2, France
e-mail: olivier.musard@aires-marines.fr
O. Musard et al. (eds.), Underwater Seascapes, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03440-9_1,
1
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014