Abstract

CARO-CARO, Clara I  and  TORRES-MORA, Marco A. Ecosystem Services as support for the Management of socioecological systems: application in agroecosystems. Orinoquia [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.2, pp.237-252. ISSN 0121-3709.

With the purpose to answer question the new interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem services and socio-ecological systems are relevant for the sustainable management of both natural systems as agroecosystem?, A review of the evolving concepts of ecosystem services and socio-ecological systems is made, and thematic developments with critical analysis in greater detail in studies on agro made in Colombia. Disputes and differential approaches are examined from ecology and economics to synthesize in delimiting three core to develop work with local emphasis: understanding and managing uncertainty and methods to identify, qualify and quantify ecosystem services and their relationship with biodiversity (trades - offs, dis- service, synergies) and the particular analysis and adjusted to the context of cultural ecosystem services.

Keywords : biodiversity; Orinoco; highthills; trades-off; environmental management; sustainability.

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