Assessing Sustainability of local production systems: A proposal based on socio-ecological resilience and collaboration

WEHBE, MÓNICA; SEILER, ROBERTO; VIANCO, ANA; MENDOZA, M.A; BARONIO, A. M.; TONOLLI, ALEJANDRO

Global Sustainable Development Report - Brief

UNDESA

Lugar: New York; Año: 2015; p. 185 - 191

Sustainability and resilience are considered the base for reaching a balanced functioning of socio-ecologicalsystems, facing internal conditions and external shocks. However, there is no agreement on how to get a goodmeasure of both concepts to allow for managing local production systems in that sense. In this Brief a methodologyfor assessing sustainability of production systems as result of a two-year research is presented. The possibility forapplying this methodology rests on a collaborative process between science and policy to improve resilience, andtherefore sustainability of local production systems.