Oliver Rackham is a botanist and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and pasture; he has written a number of well-known books, including The History of the Countryside (1986) and one on Hatfield Forest.
Hoskins, and Rackham and Moody, are concerned with a big picture, and with processes which work across a whole, albeit extremely varied, landscape; their remit is in some senses a much more general one than that of any survey-team is likely to be.
Obeying their Maxim 7, Rackham and Moody confess that they don't know about the reasons for the transformation of the landscape from the Gortyn Laws with their serfs living on rural estates to the hamlet-studded scene of the later middle ages (p.
Rackham and Moody have shown how to study the vast congeries of diversity that is Crete, giving Omalos, Sphakia, Gavdhos, and Chania their proper places.
OliverRackham's work is much more grounded in ecological science than Everett's culturally oriented study and in this he is much more representative of landscape history as it has been generally practiced.
Rackham is an expert in woodland ecology and is regionally focused on Britain (though he does go further afield).
Rackham ties the landscape to the culture that created it (in terms of the management of trees and woods, etc.), and does so by melding historical documentation with woodland ecological science.
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