A social-ecological spatial framework for policy design towards sustainability: Mexico as a study case

CASTELLARINI, F; SIEBE, C.; LAZOS, E.; BEATRIZ DE LA TEJERA; COTLER, H.; PACHECO, C.; BOEGE, E.; MORENO, A.R.; SALDÍVAR, A.; LARRAZABAL, A.; GALÁN, C.; CASADO, J.M.; BALVANERA, P.

Investigación ambiental. Ciencia y política Pública

SEMARNAT-INECC

Lugar: Ciudad de México, DF; Año: 2014 vol. 6 p. 45 - 59

2007-4492

Integrated spatial framework to assess coupled social-ecologicalsystems and design ad hoc public policies is still lacking. We usedthe country of Mexico as a case study to: i) develop a socialecologicalspatial framework, the socio-ecoregions, ii) describethe resulting patterns, and iii) explore how the framework canbe used for designing policies towards sustainabillity. Ecoregionsand Human Development Index were used to build socioecoregions.We showed how the socio-ecoregions framework reflectsthe ecological and social heterogeneity of the country. Thisframework was shown to be useful to design social-ecologicalpolicies. We discuss that this framework may easily be developedfor other regions at global to local scales and contribute to thedevelopment of more integrated policies towards sustainability.