[3] Some scholars assert that the discipline of land change science is loosely derived from German concepts of landscape as the total amount of things within a given territory.
[3] Thus far, the aims of land change science have been to:[4] Land change science is an interdisciplinary field, and thus is influenced by a number of related areas of study, including remote sensing, political ecology, resource economics, landscape ecology, and biogeography.
[5] Land change science mainly operates within the international scientific research frameworks from which its fundamental questions were developed.
Land change science as a discipline faces several challenges, many of the stemming from its interdisciplinary qualities or issues with developing inferences using aggregate data.
[9] Thus, these setbacks pose fundamental challenges to the connection of communities and environment that land change science seeks to achieve.