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Le paysage entre la Nature et la Société

1978; PERSEE Program; Volume: 49; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/rgpso.1978.3552

2437-2234

Georges Bertrand,

African Botany and Ecology Studies

Landscape between nature and society. Though it plays an essential part in our daily life, the landscape does not belong to any scientific category and it cannot be reduced to any single concept. The author proposes to study the landscape as a conception that is related to both nature and society sciences. Then landscape is defined as a social interpretation of a real fact which does exist without any consideration of the observer's will ; such a social interpretation cannot be separated from the economic and cultural production system to which the observer belongs. Thence any landscape should be examined at the same time as a subject and as an object as well, or, more accurately, as a permanent interchange between these two categories. Only such dynamic complex analysis of the landscaping process enables the scientist to draw the landscapes' sketches that can be used to define the landscape as a socio-ecological system and to recognize its function on the social process as a whole.