Landscape emerging: A developing object of study

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.