A1 - New social, political, environmental and landscape problems

"The growing consumption of energy has injured or destroyed the resilience of local, regional and global ecosystems.
The emergence of a global environmental unbalance involves the search for another type of development : sustainable development.
Traditional local identities suffered from the transformation of local vernacular cultures into more or less global mass cultures : people have lost the intuitive knowledge they had of their home landscape and the way it had to be managed.
A more general crisis of identities grew out of the increased mobility of persons and information : there is a general deterritorialization of modern populations, with a multiplicity of faraway links and less local solidarities.
Many people react to this threat of identitarian dissolution into a more or less homogeneous environment by building communitarian responses : they try to anchor a renewed form of local identity into the traditional landscapes they wish to preserve in spite of globalization."

(This is an excerpt from the text by Professor Paul Claval “NEW STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING LANDSCAPES AND STRENGTHENING IDENTITIES AS TOOLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”)