SPATIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES. A MODEL AND A CASE STUDY

Auteur :
BRUNET R.,

Description :
WORLD SPACE APPEARS TO BE DIVIDED INTO UNEQUALLY STABLE WHOLES WHICH WE SEE AS BEEING STRUCTURES PRODUCED BY THE COMBINED ACTION OF NATURAL SYSTEMS SPATIAL GRADIENT AND OPEN ENERGETIC SYSTEMS. THE LATTER ARE BASED ON THE INTER PLAY OF POPULATION, INFORMATION, RESSOURCES AND CAPITAL, ACTING THROUGH THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, AND IN INTERACTION WITH THE SOCIAL STRUCTURES WHICH ARE REPRODUCED BY THE SYSTEM AND INTURN REPRODUCE IT UNTIL THEY BECOME INCONSISTENT. THIS MODEL IS APPLIED, AS AN EXAMPLE, TO CHAMPAGNE (FRANCE).


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
GEOFORUM. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL, HUMAN AND REGIONAL GEOSCIENCES, 1975, vol. 6, n°. 2, p. 95-103

Date :
1975