According to the foreword by Aart Oxenaar, this handbook allows one to look at landscape in a different way. Diminutive in size yet expansive in content, the didactic publication encourages viewing landscape not as a static image, but as the temporary result of social, economic and political movements. Its 50 anecdotes offer a snapshot of the ongoing interaction between patterns of human occupation and natural processes. Each proposes ways to act or adapt one’s behaviour and approach, and offers suggestions for further reading. The book is filled with images and reflective quotes, and additional texts by Marieke Timmermans, Thomas Oles and Jacques Abelman.