Aims and scope
The International Terraced Landscapes Alliance Journal is the forum of the ITLA networks. It reports on what members and their local and national groups do to keep terraced landscapes alive: projects, festivals, schools, restorations, campaigns and the people behind them. Where The Journal of Terraced Landscapes publishes research, this journal records practice and shares it across the alliance, from one valley to another and from one continent to another.
Scope
Each issue usually has a theme. Recent issues have covered the alliance and its history (1/1, 1/2), women and terraces (2/1, 2/2), heritage and memory (3/1), the European terrace festivals (3/2) and terrace pedagogy (4/1). Typical subjects include:
- Community projects: volunteers and associations rebuilding walls, reopening paths and returning abandoned terraces to use, as in Valstagna, Vernazza or Averara.
- Education: dry-stone wall schools, children's workshops, school excursions and training courses, from the Wachau to the Moselle and Cyprus.
- Events and networks: European Days of Terraced Landscapes, festivals, world conferences and the work of the national ITLA groups.
- Heritage: traditional irrigation, toponymy, intangible cultural heritage and the recognition of terraced landscapes by UNESCO and national bodies.
- People: women's knowledge and activism, farmers, craftspeople and the memory of those who shaped the alliance.
- Gardens and biodiversity: restored garden sites, living walls and the plants and animals that depend on terraces.
What we publish
- Articles of about 2,500 words that present a clearly stated problem or experience, with an abstract.
- Reports on projects, events, courses and field visits, written for practitioners and illustrated with photographs.
- Editorials and occasional In memoriam pieces.
Contributions are reviewed by the editors. The IMRAD structure is welcome but not required: a clear account of what was done, where, by whom and what was learned matters more than form.
Readers
ITLA members, associations and local initiatives, teachers, wallers and farmers, and everyone who works with terraced landscapes in practice. Research on the same subjects appears in The Journal of Terraced Landscapes, artistic work in The Art of Terraced Landscapes.
