College 3

Question 1

What are the foces that cause landscape changes?

Answer 1

Plaatje: Politcs, Economy, Tech, Nature and Culture

Question 2

What do the alternative frameworks lack?

Answer 2

They lack natural forces

Question 3

In what main components can culture be distinguished?

Answer 3

• Way of life: housing type, location and houshold size - Demography: population size - Past development society: historic framework offers path dependency

Question 4

In what parts does does the political force split itself?

Answer 4

• Political system in general - Stimulating spatial policies - Restrictive spatial policies - Indirect effects on non spatial policies

Question 5

What are the components of the economy force?

Answer 5

• Consumer demands, prosperity increases demand for recreation and housing - Market structure: degree of market freedom - Goverment intervention: Subsidies, taes and incentives

Question 6

What are the main components of the thecnology force?

Answer 6

• Man made artifacts or tools - Knowledge of their porduction an use - Social and organizational knowhow

Question 7

Which factors do the natural forces consist of?

Answer 7

• Natural driving forces: topography, soil condition, climate, naturl disturbances or disaster - Spatial configuratiom: existing land uses, transport networks

Question 8

How are the driving forces studied?

Answer 8

Qualitatively : mostly expert judgment - using interviews or literature review

Question 9

How to preforme a qualitative analysis?

Answer 9

• Hypotheses on literature - Describing possible explanations - Limited value for building models of landuse change

Question 10

How to preforme a quantitative analysis?

Answer 10

• Estabilshing a degree of correlation betweeen a dependent (to be explained) variable and independent (explanatory) variable - Makes use of multivariate statistics

Question 11

What does the logistic regression explain?

Answer 11

the probability of occurence

Question 12

What dominant trends where explained in the practival and how?

Answer 12

With logistical regression occurence of new urban area, new forest and loss of agriculture were explained.

Question 13

In what way is the landuse study about Switzerland a quanlitative analysis?

Answer 13

• Small area - Relying on topograpical maps - Using general information and expert opinion