Fluvial geomorphology and semiotics: a Wittgensteinian perspective of the ‘divide’ between human and physical geography

Couper, Pauline

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00262.x

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“…Según Couper (2007), en una jerarquía escalar y anidada, cada nivel contiene un nivel más bajo y los individuos en éste son subsistemas del primero; así, para un sistema, el siguiente más alto proporciona su ambiente. Sin embargo, hay divergencias entre los autores en cuanto a la capacidad de influencia hacia arriba: la habilidad de un sistema para influenciar la escala del metasistema en el cual está.…”

Section: La Escala: Limitante Para Sistemas Abiertosunclassified

La escala en el desarrollo sustentable (DS) y turismo sustentable (TS) : sus implicaciones epistemológicas

Bernal

García³

et al. 2011

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The aspects and epistemological problems of SD and ST concentrate on scale, including ambiguity and uncertainty (in other paper), at the same time it is related to questionings on the current ways of generating knowledge. This situation responds both to the emergence of phenomena unseen in scientific literature and the new scientific perspectives which lead to the crumbling of previous suppositions. Hence, the problems of scale indicate us the limitations of their usual meanings; the resistance posed by the complex objects of study to said limitations and the need to define organizational forms or alternative concepts to that of scale in order to deal with holistic conceptions.

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La escala en el desarrollo sustentable (DS) y turismo sustentable (TS) : sus implicaciones epistemológicas

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“…The search goes on and there is a brisk market in scaling models with a mathematical structure. At another extreme, a geographer (Couper 2007) has recently suggested that words and their precise significance might indicate better the process connections between river hierarchical levels, citing the case of bank erosion processes.…”

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‘Catchment Consciousness’ – Will Mantra, Metric or Mania Best Protect, Restore and Manage Habitats?

Newson

2010

Salmonid Fisheries

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This chapter explores the dilemmas facing those from the science, regulatory and activist communities who seek to deploy 'tools' to sustainably protect, restore and manage riverine habitats. It addresses particularly the growing sanctioned discourse that only an integrated catchment context can ensure sustainability and that policies which enshrine the 'ecosystems approach', such as the European Union (EU) Water Framework and Habitats Directives, will create a supportive regulatory framework. The search for 'tools' is challenging in physical habitat, particularly 'hydromorphology', and robust metrics must await a rapid increase in the purposeful collection of empirical data, driving river channel typologies. In parallel to the search for tools and for metrics of regulation the mantra of scientific guidance faces some necessary introspection particularly in the face of the mania for opportunistic, community-driven improvements to riverine integrity (however defined). In practice, all three communities need fruitful lines of communication if the catchment context and ecosystems approach are not to prove inapplicable.

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“…Harrison et al 2004 2008), including some discussion on system‐based concepts, e.g. complexity and emergence (Harrison et al 2006) and hierarchy (Couper 2007). While these innovative discussions on ‘crossing the divide’ in geography are interesting and important for the development of the subject, geographers should also engage in a parallel perspective (perhaps be a little less indulgent?…”

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Exploring the challenges of integrated coastal zone management and reflecting on contributions to ‘integration’ from geographical thought

McFadden¹

2008

Geographical Journal

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Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a challenging process, defined by stakeholder engagement and underpinned by knowledge on the integrated behaviour of coastal systems. While significant advancements in ICZM have been made, a range of difficult and important questions about ‘integration’ remain to be explored. This paper discusses opportunities for addressing such challenges of integration through the application of geographical thinking to understanding and managing coastal environments. It focuses on geographical traditions on systems thinking, the process‐based nature of geographic research and geographical contributions to conceptualising place and our relationships to it. Using UK‐based case studies the paper explores integration challenges from three different coastal contexts and management perspectives, examining: adaptation through managed realignment in a local community, integrated flood risk management in London and the Thames Estuary and enhancing the ‘socially just’ nature of coastal management. The case‐study discussion highlights the importance of ‘geographical thought’ to improving the integrative basis of strategies for managing complex coastal environments. This paper argues that ‘thinking geographically’ is one logical vehicle for increasing our understanding of, and providing solutions to, barriers which limit progress towards greater ‘integration’ in coastal management. Geography is dynamic, plural and based on the recognition that reality is contested and as such geographical ideas could add considerably to emerging cross‐disciplinary knowledge on the interactions and interdependencies of behaviours within coastal systems.

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Fluvial geomorphology and semiotics: a Wittgensteinian perspective of the ‘divide’ between human and physical geography

Cited by 19 publications

References 73 publications

La escala en el desarrollo sustentable (DS) y turismo sustentable (TS) : sus implicaciones epistemológicas

La escala en el desarrollo sustentable (DS) y turismo sustentable (TS) : sus implicaciones epistemológicas

‘Catchment Consciousness’ – Will Mantra, Metric or Mania Best Protect, Restore and Manage Habitats?

Exploring the challenges of integrated coastal zone management and reflecting on contributions to ‘integration’ from geographical thought

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