The study of landscape influences on aquatic habitats and their assemblages has evolved rapidly. New conceptual frameworks and tools are still being developed, but concepts from the landscape approach are being applied already across a broad range of systems. Landscape approaches are becoming an important tool for resource managers; they provide insight, tools to support decisions, and predictions of effects of large-scale processes. While the symposium will include presentations on recent advances in landscape scale research, it will focus on the transfer of knowledge from the landscape paradigm to creative applications that provide solutions to long-standing problems faced by resource managers. Our goal is for attendees to gain an overview of how the landscape approach is now being applied; we hope that resource managers will take home new tools, and that researchers will gain further insight into the possibilities offered by the landscape approach.