CHANGING LANDSCAPES: PERCEPTION, NATURAL DISTURBANCE AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LANDSCAPES

Abstract

Through the use of artificial techniques, nature may be transformed into Ager or Polis, or either it may remain in its natural state as Saltus. These three territorial components are analyzed in their zonal integration as Urban, Rural and Protected Wild; being margins or periurban ecotones generated between Ager and Polis, and perirural between Saltus and Ager. Due to this, landscape is defined as the cultural result of successive activities and interventions carried out by society over nature, and at the same time actions of nature over society; thus being nature the entity considered as the matrix generating the cultural landscape. Landscape is, then, a result between elements incorporation and extraction, where different landscape conditions, such as relictual, stressed, wild, agonic and harmonic, are generated.