El descubrimiento de las montañas europeas: del modelo “alpino” a los modelos geográficos específicos de la montaña

Abstract

In spite of an important role the alpine model played in the scientific discovery of mountain in Europe, it represented a real obstacle for comprehension of the diversity of different mountains of the world. During the XXth century the representations of European mountains had diverged from the alpine model and acquired the specific geographical features. The geographers recognized the necessity of the diversity of the approaches to the mountain study and impossibility to analyze it, limiting by only discipline, only model or only geographical school. At the same time the new models of mountain environment has been formed such, as that of the mediterranean, arid and tropical mountain. In this article we are trying to demonstrate the contrasted effects of the alpine model on the scientific representations of European mountains analyzing its impact on the knowledge of the Caucasus.