Improvement of the Methodology for the Assessment of the Agro-Resource Potential of Agricultural Landscapes

Zhumakhan Mustafayev, Akhmetkal Medeu, Irina Skorintseva, Tatiana Bassova and Gulnar Aldazhanova ()
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Zhumakhan Mustafayev: Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management, Institute of Geography and Water Security Science Committee, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Akhmetkal Medeu: Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management, Institute of Geography and Water Security Science Committee, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Irina Skorintseva: Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management, Institute of Geography and Water Security Science Committee, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Tatiana Bassova: Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management, Institute of Geography and Water Security Science Committee, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Gulnar Aldazhanova: Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management, Institute of Geography and Water Security Science Committee, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The purpose of this study was the scientific justification of the concept of assessment of the agro-resource potential of agricultural landscapes and the improvement of the methodology for such assessment, on the basis of knowledge integration principles that allow for the combining of various fields of science in order to create an integrated methodological approach to addressing scientific and practical problems of environmental management. Based on the analysis of modern worldviews and natural scientific ideas on the mechanisms of biomass production in natural systems, we propose a methodology for the assessment of the agro-resource potential of agricultural landscapes that is an integral function of four key components (groups of factors)—agroclimatic resources (ACR), soil–land resources (SLR), agrobiological resources (ABR) and water resources (WR)—and that is based on the laws of nature and the principles of agricultural nature management. The proposed algorithm for predicting the natural state of agricultural landscapes based on agroclimatic, agrochemical and agrobiological integrated indexes allowed us to develop a unified integrated approach to the methodology for the assessment of the agro-resource potential of agricultural landscapes that makes it possible to determine the logical sequence of the trend of changes in the natural process, fully characterizing its state in the space–time scale.

Keywords: methodology; assessment; agro-resource potential; integrated methodological approach; climatic index; energy resources; moisture supply; water supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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