Before revision:  The implications of these findings range from a better understanding of why socio-economically better-off societies are geographically placed where they are , in the present, past and future, to informing where new economic activities could be established in order to yield favourable economic outcomes based on geography/climate conditions.
After revision:  The implications of these findings range from a better understanding of why socio-economically better-off societies are geographically placed where they are