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In mediterranean-climate regions (MCRs), historical and geographical as well as ecological approaches are needed to elucidate processes and patterns occurring at that rarely defined level of complexity called “landscape”. In the case of Chile, a glance at the past five centuries of history is particularly crucial to the understanding of the various impacts of landscape degradation. Furthermore, to aid in our attempt to combine both ecological and human geographical considerations, we will borrow the “three waves” paradigm of sociologist Alvin Toffler (1980). Toffler was, of course, dealing with all of human history, and at the full planetary scale. Here we will be zooming in on the so-called secano interior, or “interior drylands”, of the subhumid region of the Chilean MCR.
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Aronson, J., Del Pozo, A., Ovalle, C., Avendaño, J., Lavin, A., Etienne, M. (1998). Land Use Changes and Conflicts in Central Chile. In: Rundel, P.W., Montenegro, G., Jaksic, F.M. (eds) Landscape Disturbance and Biodiversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03543-6_9
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