EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE CONCEPT OF THE

This text seeks to present and/or foster a discussion that has stimulated different debates in Geographical Science and related areas, regarding the need to better qualify the concept for the term Environment, which has been used according to different meanings and interests, fostering the need to taper the concept, considering the importance of the correct use of the term Environment in the different Environmental Sciences, especially in Geographical Science.Thus, the term Environment is presented as a single, totalitarian concept for the qualification of the Earth's surface, without the media imperative in current use in contemporary human society, with the aim of fostering epistemological discussions necessary for the consolidation of the term Environment as a totalitarian concept for the representation of the Earth's surface.