Land changing is a major activity of how people are believed to be civilized. Since the beginning, very many years have passed and some people have converted the natural landscape which is the area having many people. Motivations which are typical for the change in land are the cultivation, the occupation and also other cultural and the economic pursuits. All through the time the earth’s surface has been the mosaic of the natural and also the culture landscape. Every path of this mosaic, forms part of a very diverse and also the interconnected sets of the landscapes which range from a relatively pristine nature of the ecosystems to completely being dominated by the humans in the urban and also in the industrial areas(Almond, 2000). The scale of this landscape when it has changed, ranges from the local to regional to the global change.
The change in the climate is more recognized in transforming of both the natural and the cultural landscapes. Land-use changes like cutting down trees, large-scale farming have a big important impact on the climate and also the weather but they can also affect the biodiversity, the biogeochemical cycles and also the water sources though how the green house gas exchange with the atmospheric are altered, the water vapour exchanges the form of the water infiltration into the soil, the route of water and also the sediment flow (Nassauer, 2013).
Things like urban development, forestry, agriculture, mining and land uses can change how the Earth surface looks. This change in the land uses and resultants change in how the land is covered have a very important effect on the systems and the processes of the ecology (Nassauer, 2013). Projecting future on how the land is covered, will make this change to allow the optimization and mitigation of the potential effects on many ecosystems processes like biodiversity, quality of the water and climate.
When we focus on a long tradition of the way the land is covered, some investigations which are on the data got through the land sat satellite programs, the USGS in which scientists use the land cover modelling simulation(May,2011). Rolfe is the one that helped to unleash a convulsive and permanent change in the American landscape. It described how a roadside verge used to look along the roads, great ferns and wild flower which delighted the traveller’s eyes and how it looks now after people started using herbicides (Nassauer, 2013). The attractive roadsides are now lined with browned and withered vegetation which looks like it was swept by fire. Every few millimetres in America land, has been altered by people somehow, at one time.
Natural landscape, is very rare as acclimated mountains are. Americans, it's as if they we injected with something which makes them continue chopping down trees which destroys the natural landscape. This still goes on and the power lawn mower is always heard every time in the land. The major principle here is, all natural landscape has a cultural meaning, no matter how landscape looks like. To a high degree, culture shows that certain activities should occur only in specific places. It is not hard to understand why all the buildings are isolated for study outside their geographic surroundings. This is what is called simplifying assumption, and it makes things easy for the learners. Cultural landscape is a legacy for everyone. We should try to maintain our natural landscape as possible
Reference
Nassauer, J. (2013). Placing Nature: Culture And Landscape Ecology. New York, NY: Island Press.
Almond, R. (2000). Preserving Culture Landscape. Baltimore: John Hopkins University.
May, T. (2011). Landscape of America. New York, NY: Nature Study Guild Publisher.
