LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING Landscape and Urban Planning 61 (2002) V—VI This article is also available online at: www-.elsevier.comylocate/landurbplan Contents of Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 61 Vol. 61 Issue 1 15 September 2002 Reconstructing past land use and vegetation patterns using palaeogeographical and archaeological data. A focus on grasslands in Nynas by the Baltic Sea in south-eastern Sweden S.A.O. Cousins, A. Eriksson and D. Franzén (Stockholm, Sweden) Preserving rural character in New England: local residents’ perceptions of alternative residential development R.L. Ryan (Amherst, MA, USA) Diurnal air temperatures in built-up areas in relation to urban planning M.K. Svensson and I. Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden) Guide for Authors Vol. 61 Issues 2-4 30 November 2002 Special Issue: Scaling and Environmental Understanding Guest Editor: Yrjo Haila Introduction Y. Haila (Tampere, Finland) Biographies Articles Scaling environmental issues: problems and paradoxes Y. Haila (Tampere, Finland) Nature grows in straight lines—or does she? What are the consequences of the mismatch between human-imposed linear boundaries and ecosystem boundaries? An Australian example D.A. Saunders and S.V. Briggs (Canberra, Australia) The merging of human activity and natural change: temporal and spatial scales of ecological change in the Kokemaenjoki river delta, SW Finland E. Ojala and S. Louekari (Pori, Finland) Free-time habitation and layers of ecological history at a southern Finnish lake A. Jokinen (Tampere, Finland) European-wide conservation versus local well-being: the reception of the Natura 2000 Reserve Network in Karvia, SW-Finland J. Hiedanpaa (Pori, Finland) Implementation of EU rural policy: is there any room for local actors? The case of East Anglia, UK H. Valve (Helsinki, Finland) Local decisions in the Finnish energy production network—a socio-technical perspective N. Wessberg (Tampere, Finland) Temporal scales and environmental knowledge production M. Akerman and T. Peltola (Tampere, Finland) Knowledge and interpretation in environmental conflict. Fish farming and eutrophication in the Archipelago Sea, SW Finland T. Peuhkuri (Turku, Finland) PII: S0169-2046(02)00173-1 VI Contents of Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 61 Politics and scale: some implications for environmental governance J. Meadowcroft (Sheffield, UK). . Wild times and domesticated times: the temporalities of environmental lifestyles and politics B. Szerszynski (Lancaster, UK).