While the above are taken into consideration, the predominance of economy in landscape transformations has been growing with ‘modernized’ productions and ‘modern’ societies and this becomes evident from the Lesvos case.These changes are very important for the future of Lesvos and Mediterranean landscapes in general. Modern processes that
re-evaluate landscapes and their characteristics as cultural resources of an area and as ideological ‘tanks’ of values,
traditions and meanings are gaining ground. Such trends are more evident in areas disadvantaged by modern standards,
where more ‘traditional’ landscape management systems and characteristics are found, still used or abandoned. In the
Lesvos case (which is a disadvantaged area, fact that is recognized by the Less Favoured Areas Scheme of the
European Union that provides aid for farmers in such areas) it seems that traditional characteristics of its economic prime
and population maximum are now being considered as remnants and monuments of a ‘golden’, wealthy and ‘traditional’
age, when both landscapes and society were ‘better’ than today.