El climafactor de diferenciación espacial: divisiones regionales del mundo desde la Antigüedad al siglo XVIII

  1. Olcina Cantos, Jorge
Revista:
Investigaciones Geográficas (España)

ISSN: 0213-4691 1989-9890

Ano de publicación: 1996

Número: 15

Páxinas: 79-98

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.14198/INGEO1996.15.07 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

Climate has been employed, from the antiquity, by diverse authors, like spacial differentiation element. Climatologist, meteorologist, botanists, agromists, among other, have worked on, varied regional divisions of climate that form the essential thing of regional climatology. But besides, numerous geographers have emphasized the fundamental role climate carry out to explain spacial distributions of societies and ways of life and even, some author, a bit too much to sketch world regional divisions, depending on climatic factor. Both lots offer diverse unities to physical criterious; so they are regions with a natural aspect existing in the terrestrial surface.