Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services: how to connect them in agricultural systems of southern South America

José M. Paruelo () and Miguel Sierra
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José M. Paruelo: Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA
Miguel Sierra: Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2023, vol. 13, issue 1, No 15, 198-206

Abstract: Abstract Sustainable intensification (SI) has become a central issue in both academic and political-institutional debates. Questions mostly center on the term’s conceptual scope. In this article, we outline an operational definition of SI based on (1) a more explicit characterization of the intensification process that describes the intensity/magnitude of the management interventions generating stress or disturbances in the system, (2) a description of the relative change in sustainability based on quantifying ecosystem services supply changes among alternative uses, and 3) the definition of “impact functions” of a given management intervention as the relationships between the level of supply of given ES (or a “bundle” of ES) and an indicator of the intensification process.

Keywords: Land use changes; Sustainability; Decision making; Land use planning; Agro-ecological intensification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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