Foreword (to the special issue Crisis of Landscapes, Landscapes of the Crisis. What are the Solutions?)

This issue on “Crisis of Landscapes, Landscapes of the Crisis. What are the Solutions?” is focused on the relationship between the vast phenomenon, and the vast phenomenology, of landscape, and the repercussions of the crisis that is affecting our society nowadays. As various authoritative scholars and intellectuals have pointed out, our contemporary times are facing up to an across-the-board crisis that runs the risk of transforming our life places in mere supports of economic-financial functions, spreading across any aspect of social life