Trajetórias do conceito de paisagem na geografia

Abstract

This essay analyses the landscape discussing the main geographical conceptions of landscape, since the initial organic and positivist ideas of the 19th century up to the functional and cultural approaches of landscape, showing how this conception has developed down the ages into the geography's approach and how it's conceived nowadays. It could be shown throughout this text that - during the nineties - the landscape conceptions have shifted to a new approach, which includes ecological, social and individual particular interests, combined in the vision of sustainable development and, thus, abolishing the predominant utilitarian aspect of the older landscapes concepts.