Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 43: 79-85, doi: 10.3897/jbgs.2020.43.13

The synergetic approach in the landscape studies

Mariya Petrova^‡

‡ "St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

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Citation: Petrova M (2020) The synergetic approach in the landscape studies. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 43: 79-85. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.2020.43.13

Abstract

The term synergetic is proposed by the german physicist Henry Hacken as the name of a new interdisciplinary scientific field studying the processes of origin and evolution of space-time structures. The main task of synergetics is to reveal the general ideas, methods and patterns of self-organization processes in various fields of science - from nature science to the humanities. Synergetics seeks to reveal the internal mechanisms of self-organization, the general laws of these processes, their synergy. In landscape synergetics, the problem of time is related to the irreversibility of processes, which leads to the idea of instability and chaos. In this regard, the present study is aimed at exploring the possibility of using the synergetic approach in landscape research, and in particular in the study of self-restoration of landscapes after the weakening of anthropogenization.

Keywords

synergetics, self-organization, anthropogenization, self-restoration of landscapes