ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a selection of the strategies that have developed from theory. Recognizing changing conditions, promoting desirable changes to existing patterns, and forecasting the form and consequences of change in the context of natural and human-driven processes on the environmental system continue to generate debate and encourage scientific investigation. To achieve a sustainable environmental pattern at either the local or regional scale, the directed process of sustainability must consider the governing natural dynamics constantly at work with the environmental systems. Forecasting the trajectory of policies and decisions is tampered by the realization that those descriptions of the future form over the shifts of both human and environmental forces. The patterns they exhibit reveal trends over time, some becoming more pronounced while others accelerating depending on the interplay between human and natural processes.
