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Drivers of Landscape Change

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Managing Landscapes for Change

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Across the globe, many Social-Technical-Ecological-Systems (STES) are buffeted by anthropogenic changes that often exceed the changes experienced by a STES in many generations. These changes are happening rapidly and challenge the capacity of a STES to adapt and anticipate the future. There are many drivers of landscape change, for example: Climate change is altering the abiotic foundations of many systems; land-use change is shifting the primary human use(s) of landscapes; land degradation is causing a loss of landscape functioning; invasive and exotic plants or animals have the capacity to quickly disrupt existing ecological networks; natural disturbance regimes are shifting. These changes are causing, or may soon cause, changes in landscape values and identity. The rate of change will be determined by both natural and managed resistance and resilience.

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Scheller, R.M. (2020). Drivers of Landscape Change. In: Managing Landscapes for Change. Landscape Series, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62041-7_3

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