Open AccessLANDSCAPE: WHERE GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY CONVERGE
Author(s) -
Sérgio de Freitas
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
holos environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1519-8634
pISSN - 1519-8421
DOI - 10.14295/holos.v3i2.1125
Subject(s) - landscape epidemiology , geography , cultural landscape , ecotope , ecology , natural (archaeology) , landscape ecology , cultural geography , space (punctuation) , time geography , landscape design , natural landscape , economic geography , historical geography , sociology , human geography , environmental resource management , development geography , computer science , habitat , archaeology , biology , environmental science , operating system
The word landscape is old and popular. It has many senses from territory to scenery. Geography uses this concept since Humboldt, which pointed out its spatiality and its physical and cultural characteristics. The geographical approach of landscape concept emphasizes relationships between natural and cultural processes in a spatial portion. Depending on physical or cultural/symbolic approaches, one of both processes will prevail. In ecological approach, the main characteristics to define landscape are spatiality, heterogeneity and relationship between elements, including men or not. Here we propose a unified landscape concept defining it as a heterogeneous space portion where relationship between natural and cultural processes occur.