Key terms:
- Adaptation: ability to respond to changing events and to reduce current and future vulnerability to change
- Attachment: linkages between individuals and places
- Belonging: being part of a community and is a key factor that makes a place sustainable and successful
- Globalisation: impact of world development on nations, regions and localities
- Identity: how people view changing places from different perspectives and experiences
- Inequality: social inequalities between people and places: income and wealth inequality as a threat to society
- Interdependence: links between economy and society: relations of mutual dependence and interdependence are worldwide and part of the world economy, trade, communications and production
- Palimpsest: evidence of changes in a place over time
- Representation: how places are portrayed by formal and informal agencies: people represent what they see and experience; how people are represented in a political sense; how place is represented in literature, art and the media
- Sustainability: linked to rebranding, marketing and place making
- Thresholds: minimum demand or population needed to support the provision of a good or service: the tipping point for change within places