Jamais deux fois ... Ou : de quelques précautions à prendre avec le temps

  • Durand-Dastès, François
Publication date
January 1999
Publisher
PERSEE Program

Abstract

The emphassis is set on the fact that time has to be taken into account in geographical studies, whatever the privileged problems and methods may be. But time must be submitted to adequate treatments ; it is at the same time an object and a tool for model building. Three levels of temporality are distinguished, each of them caracterised by the time scale, but also by the use that can be made of them. First the case of the constitution of observable spatial entities is considered ; secondly, the place of time in systemic logic is shown, using the case of the demographic transition model. Thirdly, a few general considerations about time in geographical models are given.On insiste sur le fait que la prise en compte du temps est indispensable e...

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