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rather than agriculture), nor the same level of development due to
differences in terms of historical heritage, political choices or levels of
exchanges with other places [DIA 97].
In parallel, a territory, even if it is defined first and foremost as the
product of systemic links between a community and its environment
[COL 99, DIM 91], is made up of a number of territories with inferior
hierarchies, of a mosaic of environments which function as micro-
territories. As a result, it is extremely difficult to define territory
spatially, whatever its size, as a system is always simultaneously
composed of subsystems and part of a wider system [PEG 96]. So
there are several spatial scales to territory (see Figure 6.2).
Figure 6.2. Spatial components of territory