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Purpose of Review
This perspective article is based on a non-exhaustive literature review of the fundamentals of economic appropriation institutions, as well as their associated governance typologies and ethical-normative guidelines. We also address potential convergences, complementarities and exchanges among Landscape Ecology, Ecological Economics and Political Ecology fields on their normative approaches regarding environmental resilience and social fairness in landscape appropriation processes.
Recent Findings
Landscape Ecology (LE) contributes, primarily, to the understanding of the relationship between spatial structure of habitat in the landscapes and their ecological processes. Indeed, LE presents a growing concern on the social and economic drivers of landscape changes, and assumes a key role for societal changes, by delivering landscape resilience parameters (as the minimum percentage of native vegetation) and also through active participation of scientists and practitioners in public and private decision-making arenas.
Summary
The effectiveness of the contributions of Landscape Ecology (LE) to public policies and to private strategies demands a clear understanding of the fundamentals of the multiple institutions and governance typologies for appropriation of goods and services. Institutions, in the sense of formal and informal rules and norms, are outcomes from decision-making arenas which constrain, among many other social relations, the land and ecosystem services appropriation in landscapes. The closer interaction with decision-making and institutional change processes, where the outcomes are laden by ethical-normative pre-analytical choices, demands from LE a careful reexamination on its ontological and epistemological assumptions. Departing from fundamental controversies regarding economic appropriation processes, this paper frames the main relations between basic institutions and the governance typologies for landscape appropriation, as well as their ethical-normative guidelines regarding environmental resilience and social fairness.
This perspective article is based on a non-exhaustive literature review of the fundamentals of economic appropriation institutions, as well as their associated governance typologies and ethical-normative guidelines. We also address potential convergences, complementarities and exchanges among Landscape Ecology, Ecological Economics and Political Ecology fields on their normative approaches regarding environmental resilience and social fairness in landscape appropriation processes.
Recent Findings
Landscape Ecology (LE) contributes, primarily, to the understanding of the relationship between spatial structure of habitat in the landscapes and their ecological processes. Indeed, LE presents a growing concern on the social and economic drivers of landscape changes, and assumes a key role for societal changes, by delivering landscape resilience parameters (as the minimum percentage of native vegetation) and also through active participation of scientists and practitioners in public and private decision-making arenas.
Summary
The effectiveness of the contributions of Landscape Ecology (LE) to public policies and to private strategies demands a clear understanding of the fundamentals of the multiple institutions and governance typologies for appropriation of goods and services. Institutions, in the sense of formal and informal rules and norms, are outcomes from decision-making arenas which constrain, among many other social relations, the land and ecosystem services appropriation in landscapes. The closer interaction with decision-making and institutional change processes, where the outcomes are laden by ethical-normative pre-analytical choices, demands from LE a careful reexamination on its ontological and epistemological assumptions. Departing from fundamental controversies regarding economic appropriation processes, this paper frames the main relations between basic institutions and the governance typologies for landscape appropriation, as well as their ethical-normative guidelines regarding environmental resilience and social fairness.
| Idioma original | Anglès |
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| Revista | Current Landscape Ecology Reports |
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| Estat de la publicació | Publicada - 30 de jul. 2024 |