Este artigo discute a paisagem na geografia desde as abordagens
organicistas, positivistas do século XIX, até as abordagens
funcionalistas e culturais a partir dos anos sessenta,
mostrando como esse conceito evoluiu através das diversas
abordagens geográficas e qual idéia sobre a paisagem
permeia nos dias de hoje. Demonstra-se que as concepções
modernas de paisagem têm incorporado novas
abordagens, tentando conciliar interesses sociais e ecológicos
numa visão do desenvolvimento sustentável, modificando
assim antigas visões utilitárias e descritivas do conceito
de paisagem.

Trajectories of the concept of landscape in geography

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
geographys approach and how its 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.