THE PROBLEM OF THE VALUE OF CLIMATE

Abstract

This proposal has as goal the search of one conception of the value of the climate that can explain a value that can’t be demonstrated by numerical criterion. The qualification appear as a manner of reference of the impossibility of the quantitative expression of the referred value, aspiring a rupture with the theorical tradition of inherited qualities of any geographic phenomenon. The methodology must be comprehended here as the procedure of this conceptual search, founded in a geographic perspective which the indicator is firmed in the precipitation while the changeable climate preponderating in the apprehension of the climate’s values. The evaluation of the values concept associated to the physic climate phenomenon and based in the social and geographic importance of the changeable precipitation, permitted to assert that the value is in the sense, a quality attributed to the climate spatiality. Besides, it is the geographic differentiation the responsible for the definition of the referred value.