Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences

Abstract

What is and ought to be humankind’s relationship with nature? Thisquestion has stood the test of time as an overarching intellectualand moral query confronting society and to which much research andpedagogy has been directed. The question can be traced to antiquityin western society (Glacken 1967), and has had no less profound thinkersin eastern societies.