Chapter 3
Landscape Emerging: A Developing Object
of Study
Olivier Musard, Laurence Le Dû-Blayo, Camille Parrain
and Christine Clément
Abstract The emergence of underwater and marine areas is a gradual, ongoing process. It has gained speed in recent years particularly with “underwater landscapes”,
which illustrate and stem from shared concern to manage marine areas. Yet, reference to the “underwater landscape” has merely been an echo to artistic or scientific
currents of thought: confined to a handful of individual or original initiatives in specific fields, there has been no sufficiently substantial basis to allow any development.
Bringing into perspective certain sequences relative to its emergence and formation
will consolidate a reference base for greater expression and consideration of this
geographic emergence of underwater landscapes and areas, having regard for what
it reflects.
Keywords Landscape observatory · Marine habitats · Scuba diving · Mapping ·
Ecumene · European Landscape Convention
3.1 Introduction
Pragmatically speaking, reference to the “underwater landscape” can appear to
be a misuse of language if we go by the generic definition whereby landscape is
“all the visible features of an area of land” (Oxford Dictionary, British and World
O. Musard () · C. Clément
Agence des aires marines protégées, 16 quai de la Douane,
CS 42932, 29229 BREST Cedex, France
e-mail: olivier.musard@aires-marines.fr
C. Clément
e-mail: chclement81@gmail.com
L. Le Dû-Blayo
UMR CNRS ESO 6590, Université de Rennes2, place H. Le Moal,
CS 24307, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
e-mail: laurence.ledu@univ-rennes2.fr
C. Parrain
UMR CNRS 7250 LIENSs, Université de La Rochelle, Bâtiment ILE,
2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
e-mail: camille.parrain01@univ-lr.fr
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Landscape Emerging: A Developing Object
of Study
Olivier Musard, Laurence Le Dû-Blayo, Camille Parrain
and Christine Clément
Abstract The emergence of underwater and marine areas is a gradual, ongoing process. It has gained speed in recent years particularly with “underwater landscapes”,
which illustrate and stem from shared concern to manage marine areas. Yet, reference to the “underwater landscape” has merely been an echo to artistic or scientific
currents of thought: confined to a handful of individual or original initiatives in specific fields, there has been no sufficiently substantial basis to allow any development.
Bringing into perspective certain sequences relative to its emergence and formation
will consolidate a reference base for greater expression and consideration of this
geographic emergence of underwater landscapes and areas, having regard for what
it reflects.
Keywords Landscape observatory · Marine habitats · Scuba diving · Mapping ·
Ecumene · European Landscape Convention
3.1 Introduction
Pragmatically speaking, reference to the “underwater landscape” can appear to
be a misuse of language if we go by the generic definition whereby landscape is
“all the visible features of an area of land” (Oxford Dictionary, British and World
O. Musard () · C. Clément
Agence des aires marines protégées, 16 quai de la Douane,
CS 42932, 29229 BREST Cedex, France
e-mail: olivier.musard@aires-marines.fr
C. Clément
e-mail: chclement81@gmail.com
L. Le Dû-Blayo
UMR CNRS ESO 6590, Université de Rennes2, place H. Le Moal,
CS 24307, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
e-mail: laurence.ledu@univ-rennes2.fr
C. Parrain
UMR CNRS 7250 LIENSs, Université de La Rochelle, Bâtiment ILE,
2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
e-mail: camille.parrain01@univ-lr.fr
O. Musard et al. (eds.), Underwater Seascapes, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03440-9_3,
27
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014