Systems Approach Evolution in the Study of Geospace
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621050046
Abstract
The article discusses the main stages of the systems approach evolution in geography. The interrelation of the evolution of system geospatial representations with the development of system concepts in natural science, philosophy, the general theory of systems, and new general scientific system models is shown. The main trajectory of the movement of ideas in a systematic study of geospace from abstract system representations of the interconnectedness of natural and social structures to complex, concrete, cybernetic, and post-cybernetic, complex geosystem models is investigated. The formation of the concept of “geosystem” and the development of geosystem discourse in Soviet geography are analyzed. The main system-forming factors, structures, and processes in models of cybernetic geosystems, their strengths and weaknesses are demonstrated. The modern stage of geosystem approach development is characterized. The post-cybernetic geosystem models properties, the growth of “soft factors” value (discursive context, dominant narratives) in their evolution are considered. A model of a “social and natural” geosystem is proposed. The possible prospects for the further geosystems evolution based on the social and natural structures co-evolution are shown.
About the Author
Yu. Yu. Kovalev
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yekaterinburg
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Kovalev Yu.Yu. Systems Approach Evolution in the Study of Geospace. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2021;85(5):773-784. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621050046
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