The impact of cultural groups in shaping and changing the natural landscape. ‘Landscape itself is a cultural image; a way of symbolizing, representing, and structuring our surroundings’ (P. Cloke et al., eds 2006). Meinig 1979 (in D. Meinig and J. Jackson, eds 1979) sees that individuals interpret the landscape in many ways, ‘all of them dependent on the viewer’s mental ideas evoked by…their previous experiences’. Röhring (2006) IASCP argues for the cultural landscape as a regional common good.