---
_id: '13540'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The IALE European Landscape Ecology Congress, held every four years, is a
    key event for the European landscape ecology community, bringing together researchers,
    practitioners, policymakers, students, and stakeholders for knowledge exchange
    and collaboration. The 2025 congress in Bratislava was especially significant,
    taking place near Piešťany where IALE was founded in 1982, symbolizing the organization’s
    evolution from Cold War-era cooperation to a global network. The 2025 meeting
    continued this legacy by promoting dialogue and action.\r\nThis editorial examines
    the 2025 congress, from IALE’s founding in Piešťany to its current role addressing
    environmental and societal crises. We review its historical context, in particular
    Eastern European contributions in former Czechoslovakia, and the ongoing influence
    of pioneers like Prof. Milan Ružička. We then analyze congress participants and
    their contributions using bibliometric analysis to reveal patterns and international
    trends. Finally, we reflect on the 2025 issue of Landscape Online, exploring how
    its publications align with and expand upon the key discussions and innovations
    that defined this year’s European Congress."
article_number: '1145'
author:
- first_name: Werner
  full_name: Rolf, Werner
  id: '86423'
  last_name: Rolf
  orcid: 0000-0001-7040-034X
- first_name: Simona R.
  full_name: Grădinaru, Simona R.
  last_name: Grădinaru
- first_name: Ľuboš
  full_name: Halada, Ľuboš
  last_name: Halada
- first_name: Viktória
  full_name: Miklósová, Viktória
  last_name: Miklósová
- first_name: Andrej
  full_name: Raniak, Andrej
  last_name: Raniak
- first_name: Uta
  full_name: Schirpke, Uta
  last_name: Schirpke
citation:
  ama: 'Rolf W, Grădinaru SR, Halada Ľ, Miklósová V, Raniak A, Schirpke U. From Drivers
    of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights
    from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World. <i>Landscape Online</i>.
    2025;100. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>'
  apa: 'Rolf, W., Grădinaru, S. R., Halada, Ľ., Miklósová, V., Raniak, A., &#38; Schirpke,
    U. (2025). From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape
    Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World. <i>Landscape
    Online</i>, <i>100</i>, Article 1145. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>'
  bjps: '<b>Rolf W <i>et al.</i></b> (2025) From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways
    for Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly
    Changing World. <i>Landscape Online</i> <b>100</b>.'
  chicago: 'Rolf, Werner, Simona R. Grădinaru, Ľuboš Halada, Viktória Miklósová, Andrej
    Raniak, and Uta Schirpke. “From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action
    in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing
    World.” <i>Landscape Online</i> 100 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>.'
  chicago-de: 'Rolf, Werner, Simona R. Grădinaru, Ľuboš Halada, Viktória Miklósová,
    Andrej Raniak und Uta Schirpke. 2025. From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways
    for Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly
    Changing World. <i>Landscape Online</i> 100. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>,
    .'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Rolf, Werner</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Grădinaru, Simona R.</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Halada,
    Ľuboš</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Miklósová, Viktória</span>
    ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Raniak, Andrej</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Schirpke,
    Uta</span>: From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape
    Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World. In:
    <i>Landscape Online</i> Bd. 100.   [Eberswalde], IALE-D  (2025)'
  havard: 'W. Rolf, S.R. Grădinaru, Ľ. Halada, V. Miklósová, A. Raniak, U. Schirpke,
    From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology:
    Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World, Landscape
    Online. 100 (2025).'
  ieee: 'W. Rolf, S. R. Grădinaru, Ľ. Halada, V. Miklósová, A. Raniak, and U. Schirpke,
    “From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology:
    Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World,” <i>Landscape
    Online</i>, vol. 100, Art. no. 1145, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>.'
  mla: 'Rolf, Werner, et al. “From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action
    in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing
    World.” <i>Landscape Online</i>, vol. 100, 1145, 2025, <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2025.1145</a>.'
  short: W. Rolf, S.R. Grădinaru, Ľ. Halada, V. Miklósová, A. Raniak, U. Schirpke,
    Landscape Online 100 (2025).
  ufg: '<b>Rolf, Werner u. a.</b>: From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for
    Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly
    Changing World, in: <i>Landscape Online</i> 100 (2025).'
  van: 'Rolf W, Grădinaru SR, Halada Ľ, Miklósová V, Raniak A, Schirpke U. From Drivers
    of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights
    from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World. Landscape Online. 2025;100.'
date_created: 2026-03-23T14:56:06Z
date_updated: 2026-03-26T09:44:55Z
department:
- _id: DEP9000
- _id: DEP9012
doi: 10.3097/lo.2025.1145
intvolume: '       100'
keyword:
- Landscape Ecology
- Landscape Research
- Land Sciences
- Landscape Drivers
- Landscape Change
- IALE
- Europe
language:
- iso: eng
place: '  [Eberswalde]'
publication: Landscape Online
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1865-1542
publication_status: published
publisher: 'IALE-D '
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology:
  Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World'
type: scientific_journal_article
user_id: '86423'
volume: 100
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '12898'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In May 1999, about 30 people from Austria, Germany and Switzerland met in
    Basel (Switzerland) to found the German Chapter of the International Association
    for Landscape Ecology (IALE-D) to bring together Germanspeaking researchers, planners
    and other people interested in landscape ecology. Now, twenty-five years later,
    we take this milestone as an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of the topics
    that have shaped the landscape ecology discourse within the IALE-D community.
    In this editorial, we (1) present the history of the IALE-D conferences, (2) reflect
    on the topics addressed by the conference contributions and how they have developed,
    and (3) offer some initial indications of changes in relevance with regard to
    technological advances, thematic foci, transdisciplinarity, sustainability issues,
    and cultural dimensions that can be observed over time. Furthermore, we provide
    an overview of the articles published in 2024 in Landscape Online, which mainly
    reflect two emerging topics, which follow the lines of the thematic development
    of the IALE-D conferences, that is, a focus on urban environments as well as on
    pressing issues related to global change.
article_number: '1131'
author:
- first_name: Werner
  full_name: Rolf, Werner
  id: '86423'
  last_name: Rolf
  orcid: 0000-0001-7040-034X
- first_name: Uta
  full_name: Schirpke, Uta
  last_name: Schirpke
citation:
  ama: Rolf W, Schirpke U. Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology discussion
    in the German-speaking IALE community. <i>Landscape Online</i>. 2024;99. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>
  apa: Rolf, W., &#38; Schirpke, U. (2024). Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape
    ecology discussion in the German-speaking IALE community. <i>Landscape Online</i>,
    <i>99</i>, Article 1131. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>
  bjps: <b>Rolf W and Schirpke U</b> (2024) Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Landscape
    Ecology Discussion in the German-Speaking IALE Community. <i>Landscape Online</i>
    <b>99</b>.
  chicago: Rolf, Werner, and Uta Schirpke. “Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Landscape
    Ecology Discussion in the German-Speaking IALE Community.” <i>Landscape Online</i>
    99 (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>.
  chicago-de: Rolf, Werner und Uta Schirpke. 2024. Reflections on twenty-five years
    of landscape ecology discussion in the German-speaking IALE community. <i>Landscape
    Online</i> 99. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>,
    .
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Rolf, Werner</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Schirpke, Uta</span>: Reflections on twenty-five
    years of landscape ecology discussion in the German-speaking IALE community. In:
    <i>Landscape Online</i> Bd. 99.   [Eberswalde] , Landscape Online (2024)'
  havard: W. Rolf, U. Schirpke, Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology
    discussion in the German-speaking IALE community, Landscape Online. 99 (2024).
  ieee: 'W. Rolf and U. Schirpke, “Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology
    discussion in the German-speaking IALE community,” <i>Landscape Online</i>, vol.
    99, Art. no. 1131, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>.'
  mla: Rolf, Werner, and Uta Schirpke. “Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Landscape
    Ecology Discussion in the German-Speaking IALE Community.” <i>Landscape Online</i>,
    vol. 99, 1131, 2024, <a href="https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131">https://doi.org/10.3097/lo.2024.1131</a>.
  short: W. Rolf, U. Schirpke, Landscape Online 99 (2024).
  ufg: '<b>Rolf, Werner/Schirpke, Uta</b>: Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape
    ecology discussion in the German-speaking IALE community, in: <i>Landscape Online</i>
    99 (2024).'
  van: Rolf W, Schirpke U. Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology discussion
    in the German-speaking IALE community. Landscape Online. 2024;99.
date_created: 2025-05-08T10:39:55Z
date_updated: 2026-03-26T09:38:45Z
department:
- _id: DEP9000
- _id: DEP9012
doi: 10.3097/lo.2024.1131
intvolume: '        99'
keyword:
- Landscape Ecology
- Landscape Research
- Land Sciences
- History
- IALE
language:
- iso: eng
place: '  [Eberswalde] '
publication: Landscape Online
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1865-1542
publication_status: published
publisher: Landscape Online
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology discussion in the German-speaking
  IALE community
type: scientific_journal_article
user_id: '86423'
volume: 99
year: '2024'
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