Bertrandian GTP translated to the reality of brazilian Geography

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is, based on my meetings with Georges Bertrand, to show possibilities of translating the accomplishments of this illustrious geographer. We attribute to BERTRAND (1968) the merit of – based on an epistemological rupture of French Geography – shifting from the “subjective monographic description” to the geosystemic theoretical model with an emphasis on society-nature relations. The Bertrandian proposal considers three elements: the evolution system, the stage reached in relation to the climax, and the general sense of the dynamics (progressive, regressive, stability). This typology is inspired, therefore, by H. ERHART’s theory of biorhexistasy. Our conclusions are explicit in the analysis of landscape dynamics in two landscape units: an in the Amazon River channel and an in the Santo Antônio brook/southwestern State of São Paulo.