Geosystems' Pathways to the Future of sustainability.
Defining Geosystems' This concept deals with the analysis of several combinations of biotic, abiotic and anthropic factors within a particular territory. It belongs to systemic approaches generally, and is used in geography to study interactions between the natural environment and societies, both temporal and spatial. It has considerable affinities with the ecosystem approach that developed in the 1930s in scientific ecology, which mainly concerned relationships between living species and their «biotopes». It however differs from it by the fact that it involves a larger spatial scale, since it enables the study of geographic space on the level of regional sub-spaces. Consequently it also integrates a wider range of factors, among which action by humans, and longer time scales. Computing modeling about the flora, fauna and physical geographical area structuring the particular area that is developed for specifc aims. For instance, if a slope or watershed forms a geosystem, th...