We use historical data to discover the rules underlying the changing patterns of a landscape in the past.
Computer models help to evaluate future developments by creating scenarios.
A landscape offers us recreation, amenity, wellness and not to forget natural renewable resources. Systematic surveys of the state of a landscape in connection with dynamic models will lead us on the road to a national resources management. The insights of the environmental sciences can only be put into practice if they are supported by the society at large. Is there a way to integrate the local people into the processes that shape the landscape.