GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Landscape Connectivity, Fruit Tree, Central Canada
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Some places acquire a strong symbolic value: important connotations and meanings. Places, regions and landscapes pay particular roles in changing complex networks of interactions and change. Locations are tied to larger processes of change that are reflected in large-scale geographical patterns. The interdependence of geographical scale (get chart from web) But be careful of reductionism: problems that exist at the largest level are not always solved at the molecular or atomic level. Misreading the african landscape: landscape change direction trajectory, must look across scales. Temporal, spatial and cultural windows of opportunity: desert landscape vs. agricultural landscape. Thresholds and positive feedbacks: socio-system thresholds, ex. Peru fruit trees: as recognition and awareness grows, market opportunities grow: ecosystem thresholds, ex. How do landscapes change with the movements of plants? (get map from the internet) Patterns of living reflect opportunities and constraints of local physical environment.
