The ICOMOS-IFLA Principles Concerning Rural Landscape as Heritage (the Principles; 2017) provide a comprehensive outline of the fields and work required to better recognise and safeguard rural landscape heritage. The Principles acknowledge that the field of heritage conservation cannot sustain rural places and traditional rural heritage landscapes on their own, but must engage with a diverse breadth of disciplines to support and safeguard these spaces. The Principles seek to address loss and adverse changes to rural landscapes and their associated communities through the recognition, safeguarding, and promotion of their heritage values. They aim to promote an appropriate balance between economic, social, cultural, and environmental studies and practices. To achieve this, local communities, advocacy groups, and disciplinary experts must necessarily work together to achieve the aspirational goals presented in the Principles document. The Principles provide specific measures related to understanding, protecting, sustainably managing, and communicating the heritage values of rural landscapes. This presentation will provide examples of the disciplinary expertise required to apply the Principles, with particular emphasis on the actions associated with understanding and documenting rural landscapes. We argue strongly for the need to engage with skills across the spectra of academic and applied disciplines, which include the humanities (e.g., history, philosophy, languages, cultural studies, religious studies, law, politics), social sciences (e.g., anthropology, archaeology, landscape architecture, heritage conservation, geography, economics), and sciences (e.g., geology, geomorphology, hydrology, ecology, botany, zoology). We also outline some of the methods – qualitative, quantitative, and comparative – necessary for interdisciplinary collaboration; and consider the role of post-humanism, integration of cultural and natural systems, and rights-based approaches in undertaking collaborative projects. We emphasise the need for all collaborative and intra-disciplinary work to be driven by local communities (as evidenced in many cooperative groups in the handicraft sector, for example).