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

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Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

Part of the book series: Advances in Agroforestry ((ADAG,volume 12))

Abstract

The sustainable management of agroforestry landscapes is complex because they are socio-ecosystems that integrate biological and socio-productive diversity with spatial-temporal dynamical interactions. Furthermore, agroforestry landscapes provide a variety of ecosystem goods and services at both the farm and global levels, and host thousands of rural people whose livelihoods depend on the forest. Strong dependence on the forest for subsistence strengthens the need to promote their sustainable management. In this chapter, we propose that management practices of Social-Ecological Systems (SES) should be addressed at the landscape scale using a resilience approach to reduce the vulnerability of agroforestry systems to environmental and/or anthropogenic drivers. We examine key properties of farm-level SES components; we demonstrate how they collectively interconnect at the landscape scale and analyze the benefits of resolving social-ecological conflicts at the landscape scale. We highlight a case study in which social-environmental conflicts are increasingly frequent and demonstrate that a resilience management approach at the landscape level should be used as a tool for resolving conflicts. Finally, we conclude that as the search for solutions through decision-making at the farm scale may have indirect and unexpected effects on other SES at the landscape level, replacing a farm-scale perspective with a landscape-scale perspective could increase SES-resilience, reducing their vulnerability to different drivers.

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Notes

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    What we call ‘sub-system’ in this chapter is also called ‘capital’ by some authors (see more on Ekins et al. 2003; Davies et al. 2008; Easdale and López 2016).We use sub-system because the term “capital” can generate epistemological discussions from their different use by social, ecological and economic disciplines.

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    http://inta.gob.ar/sites/default/files/script-tmp-inta_fortalecimiento_del_consorcio_champaqui_prevenci.pdf

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    http://www.bomberosra.org.ar/bomberos/863-bomberos-voluntarios-de-villa-de-las-rosas

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)- Estación Forestal INTA-Villa Dolores, Córdoba, Argentina

    Dardo R. López, Laura Cavallero, Carlos H. Carranza & Marcela Ledesma

  2. CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) - CCT Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

    Laura Cavallero

  3. INTA- Estación Experimental Agropecuaria (EEA) Bariloche / CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina

    Marcos H. Easdale

  4. EEA INTA Santa Cruz-Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina

    Pablo L. Peri

  5. CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Pablo L. Peri

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López, D.R., Cavallero, L., Easdale, M.H., Carranza, C.H., Ledesma, M., Peri, P.L. (2017). Resilience Management at the Landscape Level: An Approach to Tackling Social-Ecological Vulnerability of Agroforestry Systems. In: Montagnini, F. (eds) Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty. Advances in Agroforestry, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69371-2_5

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