positivism and realism on
the one hand, and constructivism and relativism on
the other. Particularly political geographers have
thoroughly addressed the idea that scales are
socially constructed, a notion that is gaining
importance. Recognizing the domination of
ecological theories, Sayre (2005) for example, states
that ecology goes astray if it mistakes the scales of
natural processes as sufficient
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