The department’s teaching and research activities are focused on the sustainable shaping of rural areas.

Under consideration of the global driving forces of landscape development and the constitutional and planning framework, aims and instruments of a future-oriented landscape development are discussed.

The main topics of teaching and research are:

- effects of renewable energies on the cultural landscape

- village development and sustainable regional development

- management concepts for the protection and regeneration of alleys

- landscape aesthetics and recreational use

- participative methods of planning