Abstract Sustainable landscape development is situated at the centre of sustainable development, covers the urban and rural areas, spans multiple scales, raises problems of justice, is multi-sectorial and can thus only be understood and managed through holistic approaches. The scientific field of sustainable landscape development is located at the interfaces of several disciplines, namely, landscape ecology, urban and landscape planning and rural and regional sustainable development. A bridging concept between the more natural and the more social scientifically oriented landscape perspectives is that of landscape functions and services. Sustainability science can contribute to this research with its coupled system perspective on the socioecological dimensions of landscapes. Further, sustainability science understood as transdisciplinary collaborative process of science and society offers also guidance on how to tackle the normative character of sustainable landscape development.
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