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LANDSCAPES, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 2, 97–98 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2016.1251099 The germ of this editorial began life on a Eurostar train as one of us was returning from the closing conference of a three-year European Commission (EC)-funded research project ‘Her- cules’, which has been working to increase understanding of changing European landscapes to help guide policy and future change (www.hercules-landscapes.eu/). Simultaneously, we are planning the closing ceremony of our own European landscape project, ‘CheriScape’, which explores the relationship between landscape and heritage in terms of research and policy (www.cheriscape.eu). Hercules was the first explicitly landscape-oriented research programme funded by the EC’s environment programmes; CHeriScape is a landscape project funded as a pilot scheme for a cultural heritage programme, the ‘Joint Programming Initiative’ on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (see also Editorial, issue 15.1). Only a few years before these projects were first being formulated, the European Science Foundation (ESF) had published in 2010 an innovative interdisciplinary science policy briefing on Landscape in a Changing World (the subject of the Editorial of Landscapes 11.1). 2010 also saw the launch in Amsterdam of a new series of biennial international gatherings – the Land- scape Archaeology Conference (LAC). After visits to Berlin, Rome and