Slaymaker (2001) bemoans the lack of attention to the impacts of climate change upon land use, especially at regional and local scales, describing the relationship between climate and human activity as a subtly reflexive one with feedbacks between people and their changing environment that are difficult to predict. He argues that the impacts of social and economic forces upon land use are just as significant as those of climate change, but it is the potential impacts of the latter that are receiving the much greater share of research funding.