Cultural-Landscape studies outside Russia: national traditions and scientific schools in the world cultural geography

The paper describes the historical background and evolutionary trends of the concept of cultural landscape in the world cultural geography. The world-wide leading national scientific schools of the cultural landscape research are compared; the German, French and Anglo-Saxon (British and American) scientific geographical national traditions are chosen as examples for studies. The cultural turn in the world human geography and its consequences for rethinking cultural landscape phenomenon are elucidated; the interdisciplinary linkages between cultural geography, other geographical and social sciences as well as humanities are analyzed. The impact of the contemporary cultural turn in human geography upon the cultural-landscape studies in Russia is evaluated and discussed.