A social-ecological spatial framework for policy design towards sustainability: Mexico as a study case
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Integrated spatial framework to assess coupled social-ecological systems and design ad hoc public policies is still lacking. We used the country of Mexico as a case study to: i) develop a social-ecological spatial framework, the socio-ecoregions, ii) describe the resulting patterns, and iii) explore how the framework can be used for designing policies towards sustainabillity. Ecoregions and Human Development Index were used to build socioecoregions. We showed how the socio-ecoregions framework reflects the ecological and social heterogeneity of the country. This framework was shown to be useful to design social-ecological policies. We discuss that this framework may easily be developed for other regions at global to local scales and contribute to the development of more integrated policies towards sustainability.
Source: Americanae (AECID Library)
Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Chapingo Autonomous University, Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Universidad de Guadalajara, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Instituto de Geografía
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1523138180