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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Peter Perry, David O'Sullivan and the editors for commenting on earlier
drafts of this chapter. James Millington performed the statistical analyses depicted
in fi gure 20.1. Nicky Perry drafted the fi gures.
NOTES
1. Of course, 'complex' also has an everyday meaning, which implies that an entity is not
simple and comprises many parts; in essence it is 'complicated'. This everyday use of
complexity is commonly used in the modelling literature. For example, detailed models
are often described as being 'complex'.
2. In silico refers to entities or analyses that solely exist or are performed entirely within a
computer.
3. By 'land-cover' I mean the nature of the land surface (e.g. forest, urban, etc.); this does
not necessarily imply how the land is 'used', which is encompassed by the more anthro-
pocentric term, 'land use'.
4. In this section, I will draw on contributions to Macmillan's Rebuilding Geography as
they provide a relatively accessible introduction to what is, at times, a somewhat dense
and daunting body of literature.
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