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Pedro S. Urquijo, Narciso Barrera Bassols
El presente artículo tiene por objetivos revisar el devenir histórico y la historiografía del concepto geográfico paisaje, a fin de mostrar su pertinencia operativa en los estudios ambientales, mediante el análisis homeostático de sus elementos tanto biofísicos como socioculturales. Para ello, ponderamos la utilidad de un enfoque epistémico monista �el paisaje como una totalidad en la que no hay separación de sus componentes�, frente al dualismo manifiesto en la dicotomía naturalezasociedad, común en pensamiento científico dominante, que poco contribuye a un entendimiento cabal del medio, en un contexto de emergencia ecológica global.
This article offers insights concerning the historical display and the historiography of landscape as a geographical concept. The paper emphasizes the theoretical and practical robustness of this notion in environmental studies. To this end, the paper presents an homeostatic analysis of the biophysical and socio-cultural components of landscape.
Taking this into account, we assess the strength and usefulness of a monist epistemic approach �which looks at the landscape as a totality that can not be fragmented by separating its various and complex components�.
This in contrast to the dualistic epistemic view that is substantiated by the nature-culture dichotomy. The last approach became a common discourse within the dominant scientific thought, but it is increasingly problematic for a comprehensive understanding of our emergent (environmental) socio-ecological reality.
