DIALOG BETWEEN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Abstract

The central theme of this essay is to present an analysis of the possible and necessary interdisciplinary articulation between History and Geography in the approach of environmental issues. The aim is to demonstrate the approximation of these subjects through the common use of theories / methodologies such as dialectics, the general theory of the systems (TGS), geosystem (GTP) and environmental history. The holistic and integrated view of the environment and the use of concepts such as territory and landscape, are increasingly being part of research that deals with the complex relations between society and nature, especially after the contemporary environmental crisis of the 1970s. Pointing theoretical paths that can equally value space and time in approaching the environmental issue is the indicated solution. The methodological procedures used were the bibliographical analysis/interpretations and the contrast of the ideas of the main authors involved in this debate. The paper concludes the feasibility of the common use of the theoretical and methodological apparatus integrated by History and Geography in the deepening of researches that discuss and present diagnoses, prognoses and solutions to the main environmental problems experienced by humanity in the past and in the present times.