Conclusions
- The
nature of the most influential factors and processes in LULCC
changes over time, as does their relative importance from
place to place.
- Many are currently seeking to generalize the driving forces
of LULCC. There is a sense that we are in a period where "global
processes" are increasingly active and determine the outcome
of interactions between society and the environment.
- While it may be true that these global processes have become
more prevalent, this does not necessarily imply that explanation
of LULCC can be found in at this scale. This case study,
and others, continue to remind us that these changes take
place somewhere and the societal and biophysical characteristics
of place mediate the global such that local changes accumulate
to the regional, the national and to the global.
- Globalization might imply that the world is becoming more
homogenous but we may in fact be finding that the local is
becoming more differentiated not less as societies mediate
global trends and their susceptibility to power through their
history, institutions, resources and their location.
- Analysis of LULCC requires an approach that incorporates:
Interactions between societal and biophysical processes over TIME, recognizing
societal and biophysical Times and across SCALES from the local to the
global to the local with explicit attention to the consequences of the
application of POWER.
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