El potencial de los paisajes culturales como factor de desarrollo regional sustentable

Abstract

The paper is centered on cultural landscapes and their potential for sustainability and resilience in the construction of a sustainable habitat. It starts from the broad concept of cultural landscape as a result of the action of human work on nature in the processes of social construction of places resulting from the practices of inhabiting, in which multiple and contradictory processes and interests linked to the transformations of the environment are synthesized in environmental geographic space. The territory is assumed as a hybrid field due to the complexity and diversity of issues that are associated with the concept. Here we introduce the cultural landscape approach that, starting from a hybrid epistemological construction, associates geographical-environmental conditions with the practices of social actors and the results of their complex and contradictory actions in the environment, always demonstrating "the brand of a purpose, even of several, given that human mobility has been great, numerous substitutions and varied technical means ". The work is developed from bibliographic surveys and local, national and international background, and its discussion, field studies, to then advance on the formulation of new conceptual and methodological strategies. The case under analysis is the metropolitan area of Córdoba and the area of the old Camino Real to the North in the Province of Córdoba.