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Abstract

This Places and Landscape in the Changing World paper attempts to “coin” and “translate”

“theory” into “practice.” So that as mankind live on earth may be able to “transform” words into action.

All doings made by man to nature may be “helpful” in building a better place to live. Thus, the

geographic variables may be understood according to they are made. To give pride to those who are

living in their respective places and landscape both rural and urban areas. Attached to the landforms

and water-forms of the land may the variability on the changing identity made into pluralistic way with

full of respect and reverence. As rural inhabitants compete their urban counterpart in terms of their

value-laden places and landscape.

As nature provide sceneries that the rural are blessed may all men seen places and landscape

full of life to the fullest as their urban counterpart mainstreaming development as by-product of man’s

partnership to creation. However, there are also instances that the urban locale can landscape the needs

and wants of an individual that the rural cannot. With that, may this study will help the individual to

“foresee” and “predict” the variability of such places and landscape in the changing modern world.

May the multimedia infrastructure resilient enough to flatten the places and landscape as the WIFI and

PSYFI increases in the road-mapping on the superhigh-link Netizens of the world.

In conclusion, as everybody learn the places and landscape in a changing world may they

instill and inculcate to the G-Alpha; G-Z; G-I and Boomlets generation the real roadmap towards WIFI

and PSYFI places and landscape identity to culturally clone identical to nature despite of being

pluralistic. Thus, in this paper one may be able to see the energy of preservation and standby who we

are in the beginning and continually doing the right thing and doing what is right to the mother-earth

as we continually living a better place for us to live.

Short title: Places and Landscape

Introduction

The course explores the concepts and dynamics of people and activities from various locations,

describing the locations and patterns of human activity, exploring process and patterns with historical lens,

and understanding the relationship of the natural environment to the other aspects of human behavior which

encompasses on the diversity of interconnections of people and places in a globalizing world as mediated

by cultures, politics and historical developments.

To discuss the multiple and a sociologically and politically constructed diverse ways in the society

where places and landscape is formed, reformed, and transformed by space, location, regional, and glocal

(global & local) agendas. As this paper addresses how landscape’s change affects people engagement on

various activities as anchors on the glocal (global & local) agendas may the multi-method approach in

gathering data from the google and eLibrary materials to the primary and secondary sources available within

the local’s may roadmap the places and landscape in the changing world, which function as anchors on how

and why changes interplay between practice and identity in the community.

Thus, the Changing landscapes, Places, Identity, change, and practices matters a lot in the Places,

Landscape in a Changing World. As the geographic factors interplay in the surrounding environment of

man, the challenging “mantra” of man’s life creates cultural diversity. The residential, commercial,

agricultural and industrial classification of the land matters in the changing landscape identity. These

variables may be able to give pride to those who are living in the rural and urban areas as they mainstream

their everyday living. Attached to the landforms and water-forms of the land, it gives the variability on the

changing identity into pluralistic way where rural may compete their urban counterpart partners in terms of

their value-laden. Nature provide sceneries that the rural can depict while urban locale cannot. However,

there are variables that cannot be done visa-versa. With that, may this study will help the individual to

“foresee” and “predict” the variability of such places in the changing landscape in the modern world while

everybody is resilient in the nature’s activity. Below are the details on the theory to be translated into

practice.

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Changing landscapes

Places and Landscape in a Changing World cannot be static as it represents the dynamic interaction

between cultural and natural processes (Buchanan, 2019). The reason for that matter because man cannot

be separated himself/herself by culture. As culture shape and reshape man’s total personality. Landscape

has always been in constant flux; yet, historically; landscape change was local, gradual, and nested within

existing landscape structures within. Meaning, where there are transformation, convergence, divergence

and subduction on the landforms may affect the living condition of the inhabitants. By contrast,

contemporary landscape changes are often seen as threatening, characterized as abrupt, unpredictable, and

highly dynamic transformations with little relation to locality (Raine, et al 2015; Fraser, 2018). E.g. the

adaptation of the multimedia infrastructure in the locals. Such transformations are driven by interrelated

factors including globalization (offshoring, outsourcing, insourcing, informing, supply chaining, intellectual migration),

population growth (natality, morbidity, mortality, mobility), urbanization (growth of socio-political factors), level of

accessibility (living condition), calamitous events (earthquake and eruption of volcanos), economic factors (increases

of price commodities, supply and demands), technological development (multimedia infrastructure), as well as changing

cultural values (tradition & beliefs system) (Eiter & Potthoff, 2016; Plieninger et al., 2016).

The publication of the Butler, et al assessment of 2018, documenting the state of landscape changes

across the continent, acted as a “wake-up” call for politicians and planners for social legislation throughout

the continent (Coulon, et al 2015). The character of the contemporary landscape change impacts on how

individuals perceive and value their surrounding-environment, influencing their ability to maintain and

sustain connections with their everyday surroundings and undertakings. Landscape is constantly contested

and reworked in relation to individual experiences, social understanding, and political circumstances. Even

if the physical does not change, how individuals and communities perceive the landscape will change over

time, through altered cultural appreciation. E.g. how an increasingly urban society appreciates an agrarian

landscape (Cote, 2017). Meaning does not meet the need and wants of the locale.

Transformation of the landscape influences how individuals engage with their surrounding

environment, influencing social interactions in the landscape (Cosgrove, et al 2018). Meaning, when an

individual abode is in the shoreline the means of livelihood is fishing, in farm is farming. So, it’s not logical

to raise livestock in the urban landscape. For the school curriculum landscape must “fit and merit” the needs

of the locale and business, industry and company counterpart partners to where the school is established.

Offer only the curriculum of “fishing” and “maritime” if the needed “common ground” to maintain and

sustain the sea and the facilities are provided.

Places, Landscape Identity

Through the interactions with others, we develop and establish identity creating constant flux

between ‘us’ and ‘the others’ as we are confronted with how ‘others’ see us. However, relationships and

connections to others are always geographically located, as Stark (2018) says that,‘to be human is to have

and know your place’. The relations we develop with our surrounding-environment create and establish

belonging, meaning, and security. Consequently, stronger bonds result in more sustainable landscapes, as

individuals and groups build ownership of the landscape. Meaning, it’s the environment who give the

identity of an individual humanity.

People–environment connections are increasingly considered important within social, political and

planning spheres. In academic studies, two distinct forms of relationships to place dominate: ‘place

identification’ (identity of place) and ‘place-identity’ (identify with place) (Frzier, 2017; Cayuela, et al

2017, Consentino, et al 2016). The second form, ‘place-identity’, represents the relationship individuals

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have ‘with’ place (Cheptou, et al 2017; Clauzel, et al 2015; Cornelius, et al 2017; Fairclough, et al 2018).

Cayuela, et al (2016) propose that ‘place-identity’ consists of dimensions of self, developed in relation to

the physical surrounding environment through patterns of beliefs, preferences, feelings, values, and

aspirations. ‘Place-identity’ becomes one of the elements underwriting personal identity (Stark, 2018),

allowing actions to be made understandable, preferences to be articulated, and providing space for

questioning alterations to our environment. Place-identity does not just happen; it requires work, repeated

acts which establish relations between people and place (Egoz, et al 2018).

The concept ‘landscape identity’ builds on both “place identity” RRLS (Review of the Related

Literature and Studies) and landscape studies, developed through both theoretical exploration and practical

development (Butler, et al, 2018). Within landscape studies, landscape identity has traditionally been treated

as the visual and physical character of the landscape (Olwig, 2016; Theroux, 2016), exemplified in practice

through Landscape Characterization, classification, categorization and attributes (Fairclough, et al 2018).

Recognized as a visual and physical entity means that landscape identity relates to identity ‘of’ landscape,

recognizing which characteristics, classification, categorization and attributes make one area similar or

dissimilar from another (Frazier, 2017). Thus, this would influence “self-identity.” Later, becomes places,

landscape identity.

Recently, several studies have attempted to bridge the dichotomy between landscape character and

landscape identity as an existential development (e.g. Loupa, et al 2016; Dossche, et al 2016; Butler et al.

2018). A significant step in the landscape identity concept comes from the work of Theroux (2016), defining

landscape identity as ‘. . .the unique psycho-sociological perception of a place defined in a spatial– cultural

space’. Stobbelaar and Pedroli’s definition builds on how individuals and groups understand a landscape as

both a physical entity and a vessel for existential meaning. E.g. city or urban inhabitants are assumed that

they are technologically literate and high on socio-economic status of living.

Landscape identity and change

This happens due to the personal knowledge, freedom, voluntariness and intent of an individual

person to exercise choice. May this choice bring an individual for good. Alterations to the landscape affect

how people see themselves. If changes are negative or nondemocratic, they undermine the relationships

individuals and communities have to their surrounding environment (Egoz, et al 2018). Changes to the

landscape’s physical may result in continued connection becoming untenable or only possible to maintain

through increased effort, as the practice no longer fit the landscape (Butler et al., 2018).

Loupa Ramos et al. (2016) speculate on there being a ‘tipping point’ to landscape identity where

through change new identity forms. Such change has the potential to create ‘landscape induced alienation’

or Solastalgia, homesickness without leaving home (Olwig, 2016). Recognizing the psychological impact

can help explain why landscape change arouses resistance. Yet, identity can also be constructed through

change (Butler et al., 2018; Dossche et al., 2016; Loupa Ramos et al., 2016), with such change having a

positive effect if it provides increased self-esteem. Meaning preferences counts very much in the landscape

identity and change. If it’s not favorable to an individual mobility is always an option for identity and

change.

Practicing landscape identity

Action and engagement help develop landscape identity (Llewellyn, Rohse, Bere, Lewis, & Fyfe,

2017), developing new understandings and discourses in and of the landscape (Butler et al., 2018). An

interrelation develops between landscape change, the practices which are undertaken, and the legitimation

of these practices like the intermarriages, employment, schooling and settlement (Butler et al., 2018;

Dossche et al., 2016; Llewellyn et al., 2017). In this issue, Butler et al. contribute with a study revealing

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how individual’s connection to the landscape is strengthened through specific activities and question the

impact that practices have on identity. Their study identifies foraging in the Swedish forest as a strengthener

of identity; a tradition which defined connection to the landscape but which has been severed after a

catastrophic landscape change.

The ‘content’ of the landscape is pivotal for informing spheres of activities and spheres of

perceptions, influencing relations to the landscape and practices recognized by communities. Such as

developing the sceneries attraction in Southeast Asia to be the “tourist attraction” as tourism spot. They

explore the action and interaction between people and their surrounding environment; the identification of

the ‘content’ of identity becomes pivotal and converging venue for a practice common to all.

To practice landscape identity is made habitual act by an individual person directed to “communal”

action by the community. The establishment of an institution such as “hospital,” “school,” “churches,”

“Municipal Hall,” “Capitol,” “Theatre arts,” “Sports Arena,” “cemetery and etc practices landscape identity

common to the area on such action, like “fiesta,” “sports game,” “fellowship,” “paying of government

obligations and etc. which made peoples action directed towards the communal “norms.” Thus, such

practice established landscape identity.

Impact of Places and Landscape in the Changing World

Contemporary landscape identities are situated in a world characterized by mobility where

identities undergo a perpetual process of ‘rewriting.’ The awareness of being part of global flows and

systems undermines local place identity (Cayuela, et al 2019). Landscape change makes the local obsolete

when local products and practices no longer fit the global systems driving such change (Dossche et al.,

2016; Llewellyn et al., 2017). Social identities including landscapes identity are a recognition of the ‘other’.

Consequently, outsider impact on landscape identity through development of a place’s narrative,

not necessarily related to the landscape as perceived by inhabitants. Local communities and those with a

connection to a place who are essential for ensuring sustainability of these landscapes and associated

identities (e.g. school, churches, hospital and etc). However, in spite and also as a response to glocal drivers,

local identities and landscape distinctiveness become more significant as they provide a sense of safety and

security like food, clothing and shelter (Loupa, et al 2016). As such, location-based identities have to be

seen as solid and fixed in order to provide anchors where collective practices, traditions, and shared material

can form. Therefore, culture strongly landscape by the material and immaterial practices made by the

inhabitants of the community.

The identity of the individuals draws on depends to the issue being addressed as individuals and

groups draw on identity from various sources; places of residency, social standing, ethnicity, practices, etc.

Consequently, as individuals, we position ourselves on many axes at the same time depending on the issue

at hand like the employment (Llewellyn, 2017). Multiple identities entail power structures, with different

value holders for recognition, with glocal community values taking priority over glocal agendas and

informing landscape identity (Mels, 2014; Olwig, 2016). This raises a need to question the drivers or actors

in order to understand what instigates change in identity (Egoz, et al 2018).

Although landscape identity is generally perceived as having positive connotations, joining people

together and developing shared values (Eiter, 2016), it also constructs exclusion through the distinction of

‘I’, ‘We’ and ‘the Other’ (Dossche, et al 2016; Buttler, 2018). Identity, including landscape identity,

becomes utilized as a means for classification, categorization and attributes of an objectifying scientific

tool, masking the conflicts and ignoring the question of who belongs, who has a right to engage in landscape

activities, legitimizing their identity in their surrounding environment (Olwig, 2016).

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Lastly, the Impact of Places and Landscape in the Changing World conventionally impacted to the

visible features on the landforms (lithosphere), and how they integrate with man-made features. A

landscape includes the geographical factors that are defined such as mountains, hills, valleys, plateau,

canyons, slopes, ridges, gorges, plains, peninsula, and etc. The water bodies (hydrosphere) such as brooks,

spring, streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, marshy, geyser, aquifer, straits, bay, lagoon, the sea, ocean

and etc. The living elements of land cover including both lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere to form

life (biosphere) on the indigenous vegetation, the fishes and other forms of an animals which human

elements including different forms of land use such as: residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial.

The buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions that

landscape the living condition of mankind. Combining both the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere form

part of the entire places and landscape on biosphere of human presence. These reflect a living synthesis of

people, places, events, location, space and regions that is vital to glocal identity.

The character, categorization and attributes of places and landscape helps define the self-image

(identity) of the people who inhabited and a sense of place (identity of the place) that differentiates people,

places, events, location, space and regions from other regions. It is the dynamic personality to people's lives.

Landscape can be as varied as located in the rural, urban and metropolitan area. The Earth has a vast range

of landscapes, including the seven continents.

The north and south polar regions, the torrid (cancer at the north and Capricorn at the south) zone,

the temperate zone (spring, summer, autumn and winter at the north and the south) vast arid desert at Sahara

(hottest) and Antarctic (coldest) of which four types of deserts landscape the surface of the earth are:

subtropical deserts are hot and dry year-round; coastal deserts have cool winters and warm summers; cold

winter deserts have long, dry summers and low rainfall in the winter; the polar deserts are cold for the year-

round. Forest, coastal, islands and water densely landscapes the home of mankind. The activity of

modifying the visible features of an area of land is referred to as landscaping.

The wild fire burn the thick forest in Australia, Amason and other continents around the world

creates new landscape on the new settlement of animals included man and the vegetation. The eruption of

volcanos, earthquake, avalanche, flood, tsunami and other natural catastrophe creates new places and

landscape in the changing world.

Conclusions

Factors affecting Places, Landscape in the Changing World are complex and interrelated. The

reasons for this are the sources of places and landscape that effects change connections. This would mean

that, “it has an individual issue on their personal vision and mission. Yet, the concepts of both places and

landscape ability to frame complexity and add analytical depth to issues can be categorically understood by

looking the perspective on political, economic, social, cultural and even to the extent on their educational

upbringing.

As becomes evident from this study, present landscape identity has not developed theoretically.

However, as the papers reveal, places and landscape in the changing world has great potential as an

analytical tool for addressing multiple connections to the places and landscape and how change impacted

on such changing world. Helping these place and landscape who loses and wins landscapes change. It

provides a frame for questioning who defines the places and landscape in the changing world? Who has a

right to define the places and landscape? How can change develop new world? What happens when the

population changes? And what conflicts of identity can we expect to encounter through landscape change?

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Thus, other field from the lens of social studies may be able to coined and translate this science into a body

of knowledge. So, for now, the changing world is at hand our mother earth needs a respectable and

committed companion on “Cora personales.”

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