geographers and ecologists
have focussed on land cover and land use at the
macro-scale, spatially explicated through remote sensing
and GIS, and using macro-properties of social organisation
in order to identify social factors connected to the
macro-scale patterns. Due to the poor connections between
spatially explicit land use studies and the social
sciences, the land use modellers have a hard time to tap
into the rich stock of social science theory and methodology.
This is compounded by the ongoing difficulties
within the social sciences to interconnect the micro and
macro levels of social organisation (Watson, 1978;
Coleman, 1990).