The Main Agroecological Structure (MAS) of the Agroecosystems: Concept, Methodology and Applications

Tomás Enrique León-Sicard, Javier Toro Calderón, Liven Fernando Martínez-Bernal and José Alejandro Cleves-Leguízamo
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Tomás Enrique León-Sicard: Instituto de Estudios Ambientales (IDEA), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Javier Toro Calderón: Instituto de Estudios Ambientales (IDEA), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Liven Fernando Martínez-Bernal: Instituto de Estudios Ambientales (IDEA), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
José Alejandro Cleves-Leguízamo: Facultad Seccional Duitama, Escuela de Administración de Empresas Agropecuarias Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Duitama, Colombia

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-21

Abstract: This document presents the concept of the Main Agroecological Structure of agroecosystems (MAS) from the perspective of environmental thinking (ecosystem-culture relationships) and considered as a dissipative cultural structure. It discusses the possible applications of this concept (resilience, production, diversity) both inside and outside the farms. The potential MAS can be useful in the planning processes of the farms because it allows the quantification of the internal and external corridors, including natural vegetation. At the same time, it can be an important tool in the context of landscape management because it shows a series of cultural relations (economic, social, symbolic and technological) that are normally overlooked by the partial analysis of landscape ecology.

Keywords: agrobiodiversity; environment; ecosystem; culture; farms; planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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