Abstract

RIVERA PABON, Jorge Andrés. ALTERED LANDSCAPE: RETROSPECTIVE ON THE SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE CENTRAL CORDILLERA. COLOMBIAN COFFEE GROWING AREA. Luna Azul [online]. 2008, n.27, pp.27-48. ISSN 1909-2474.

The present geographical analysis is geared towards clarifying the cultural coffee landscape composition and structure, long-term process which involves the metamorphosis of nature in a "humanized" environment in the mountainous areas of the central Colombian Andes. From this approach, the article announces a general retrospective focus on the social construction process of these Andean territories and the changes in them.

Keywords : Environmental Geo-history; nature-society relation; cultural landscape; environmental changes and transformation; Urbanization.

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