Resilience Management at the Landscape Level: An Approach to Tackling Social Ecological Vulnerability of Agroforestry Systems

LÓPEZ D.R.; CAVALLERO L.; EASDALE M.H.; CARRANZA C.; LEDESMA M.; PERI P.L.

Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

Springer

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2017; p. 127 - 148

Both human well-being and natural ecosystems are directly affected by social activities and/or conditions, as well as by stochastic climatic events. Agroforestry landscapes can provide a great variety of ecosystem goods and services at both farm and global levels. In this chapter we focus on management practices of social-ecological systems at the landscape scale by using a resilience approach to reduce the vulnerability of agroforestry systems (AFS) to environmental and/or anthropogenic disturbances. We define social-ecological systems and introduce key emergent SES properties for agroforestry management. We then propose a framework to analyze social-ecological systems at a landscape scale. Finally, we demonstrate this framework with an example that shows the benefits of resolving social-ecological conflicts at the landscape scale.