By understanding how the landscape system changes with time then if we can better understand how stable the landscape we observe today is, and if we know how it is changing, we may be able to better diagnose why it is changing. This will allow us to better manage our landscapes, differentiate man-made impacts from natural evolution, and potentially predict (or at a minimum assess the risks of) future evolutionary scenarios and any anthropogenic interventions. While paleo-analogue and current day analogue sites can indicate likely behaviour their usefulness depends of how well we can generalise from their analogue behaviour to the site that we are interested in. That may be difficult. In some cases, such as the author’s engineering applications of designing man-made structures for containing mining and nuclear waste, there may not be any analogue to guide our management decisions.