Overview
- Editors:
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Luisa E. Delgado
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Escuela de Ciencias Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Chile, Fundación Centro Transdisciplinario de Estudios FES-Sistémicos, Santiago, Chile
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Víctor H. Marín
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Laboratorio de Modelación Ecológica Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- The only book on social-ecological systems from Latin America
- Discusses social-ecological systems, which are the basis of Latin America’s development
- Presents a discussion on the complexities of social-ecological systems from specialists in several areas (sociology, ecology, economy)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiv
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Concepts and Methods to Study Social-ecological Systems
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- Víctor H. Marín, Ignacio A. Marín, Luisa E. Delgado
Pages 3-13
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- Luisa E. Delgado, Daniela C. Pérez-Orellana, Víctor H. Marín
Pages 15-32
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- Daniela C. Pérez-Orellana, Ailan Villalón-Cueto, Romina De Ríos, Carolina Velázquez-Mendoza, Marcela Torres-Gómez, David Quiñones-Guerrero et al.
Pages 33-51
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- Luisa E. Delgado, Iskra Alejandra Rojo Negrete, Marcela Torres-Gómez, Amanda Alfonso, Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez
Pages 53-69
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Challenges of Latin America Social-ecological Systems
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- Ricardo Castro-Díaz, Maria Perevochtchikova, Catherine Roulier, Christopher B. Anderson
Pages 73-93
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- Luisa E. Delgado, Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez, Pamela Bachmann-Vargas, Carmiña Soto, Veronique S. Avila Foucat, Ricardo A. Gutierrez et al.
Pages 117-135
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- Antonio Tironi-Silva, Marcela Torres-Gomez, Francisco De la Barrera
Pages 137-147
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- Víctor H. Marín, Colin Maxwell Finlayson
Pages 149-158
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
Pages 185-185
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- Ricardo Castro-Díaz, Walter Sione, Brián Ferrero, Virginia Piani, Griselda Urich, Pablo Aceñolaza
Pages 187-211
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- Neison Cabral Ferreira Freire, Claudia Eleonor Natenzon
Pages 213-227
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- Stella Mary Amarilla, Alberto Yanosky, Janet Villalba
Pages 229-246
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- Gloria Yaneth Flórez Yepes, Jhon Fredy Betancur Pérez, Jorge Andrés Ospina, Angela María Alzate
Pages 247-260
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- Fernando Félix, Mario Hurtado
Pages 261-281
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- María Perevochtchikova, Iskra Alejandra Rojo Negrete, Estebania Teyeliz Martínez Jiménez, Zenia María Saavedra Díaz, Sandra Edda Martínez
Pages 283-303
About this book
Human societies are influencing nature in such a way that their independent analysis is no longer suitable. Fortunately, social-ecological systems provide a conceptual framework for the interconnected analysis of societies and ecosystems. However, in the case of Latin America, the complexity of social-ecological processes undermined a much-needed compilation of theoretical concepts, methods and case studies. Increasing readers’ understanding of such systems using a postnormal approach, the book discusses current concepts and methods with examples of studies from eight countries. It is a useful resource for social actors, government decision makers and scholars.
Editors and Affiliations
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Escuela de Ciencias Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Chile, Fundación Centro Transdisciplinario de Estudios FES-Sistémicos, Santiago, Chile
Luisa E. Delgado
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Laboratorio de Modelación Ecológica Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Víctor H. Marín
About the editors
Luisa E. Delgado is a Professor at Universidad de Chile, Invited Professor at Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay) and founder of Fundación Centro Transdisciplinario de Estudios FES-sistémicos (Chile). She has a doctoral degree in Social Processes and Public Policies from Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales and a master’s degree in Ecology from Universidad de Chile. She was awarded scholarships by the Deutshcer Akademisher Austauschdients (DAAD, Germany) and the World Bank. She is currently pursuing research, financed by CONICYT-Chile, on social-ecological systems, ecosystem services, human wellbeing and environmental governance.
Víctor H. Marín is Full Professor at Universidad de Chile (Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias). He has a Ph.D. in Oceanography and postdoc in Ecosystem Ecology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA), and he received a Georg Forster fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) to study aquatic ecosystems. He is currently a Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Numerical Modelling at Universidad de Chile.
