Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis

Autores
Easdale, Marcos Horacio; Aguiar, Martin Roberto
Año de publicación
2012
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inglés
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Many of the complex issues worldwide regarding environmental management and sustainable develo-pment require integrating the social and natural sciences. Nevertheless, while theoretical discussions have been increasingly developed, operative issues are still major barriers to integrated social-ecological analysis. The aim of this paper was to assess regional forage production in semi-arid rangelands as a key feature in social-ecological analysis, by using human organizational units (i.e. counties). We used these state-administrative units to explore demographic and farming indicators in order to address socio-productive implications of different regional forage production dynamics. We studied the forage spatial and temporal dynamics in two different large ecological regions: Monte and Patagonia, under a single administrative unit (i.e. province). Since forage production estimations in arid rangelands are not trivial, we tested two different methods. We found that inter-annual variability in forage production explained the main differences between regions. At a regional level, zones with higher temporal variability in forage production registered less rural residents and farm numbers, but inverse situations were registered at sub-regional scales. We found a non-linear relationship between forage production variability and rural population density. We proposed differentiated policy recommendations regarding rangeland management and animal husbandry, considering both the social and ecological contexts. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Fil: Easdale, Marcos Horacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Patagonia Norte. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Carlos de Bariloche; Argentina
Fil: Aguiar, Martin Roberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina
Materia
Livestock
Monte
Patagonia
Policy Design
Remote Sensing
Social-Ecological Systems
Temporal And Spatial Variability
Vulnerability
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
title Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
spellingShingle Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
Easdale, Marcos Horacio
Livestock
Monte
Patagonia
Policy Design
Remote Sensing
Social-Ecological Systems
Temporal And Spatial Variability
Vulnerability
title_short Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
title_full Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
title_fullStr Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
title_full_unstemmed Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
title_sort Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands - A step towards social-ecological analysis
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Easdale, Marcos Horacio
Aguiar, Martin Roberto
author Easdale, Marcos Horacio
author_facet Easdale, Marcos Horacio
Aguiar, Martin Roberto
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author2 Aguiar, Martin Roberto
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Livestock
Monte
Patagonia
Policy Design
Remote Sensing
Social-Ecological Systems
Temporal And Spatial Variability
Vulnerability
topic Livestock
Monte
Patagonia
Policy Design
Remote Sensing
Social-Ecological Systems
Temporal And Spatial Variability
Vulnerability
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Many of the complex issues worldwide regarding environmental management and sustainable develo-pment require integrating the social and natural sciences. Nevertheless, while theoretical discussions have been increasingly developed, operative issues are still major barriers to integrated social-ecological analysis. The aim of this paper was to assess regional forage production in semi-arid rangelands as a key feature in social-ecological analysis, by using human organizational units (i.e. counties). We used these state-administrative units to explore demographic and farming indicators in order to address socio-productive implications of different regional forage production dynamics. We studied the forage spatial and temporal dynamics in two different large ecological regions: Monte and Patagonia, under a single administrative unit (i.e. province). Since forage production estimations in arid rangelands are not trivial, we tested two different methods. We found that inter-annual variability in forage production explained the main differences between regions. At a regional level, zones with higher temporal variability in forage production registered less rural residents and farm numbers, but inverse situations were registered at sub-regional scales. We found a non-linear relationship between forage production variability and rural population density. We proposed differentiated policy recommendations regarding rangeland management and animal husbandry, considering both the social and ecological contexts. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Fil: Easdale, Marcos Horacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Patagonia Norte. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Carlos de Bariloche; Argentina
Fil: Aguiar, Martin Roberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina
description Many of the complex issues worldwide regarding environmental management and sustainable develo-pment require integrating the social and natural sciences. Nevertheless, while theoretical discussions have been increasingly developed, operative issues are still major barriers to integrated social-ecological analysis. The aim of this paper was to assess regional forage production in semi-arid rangelands as a key feature in social-ecological analysis, by using human organizational units (i.e. counties). We used these state-administrative units to explore demographic and farming indicators in order to address socio-productive implications of different regional forage production dynamics. We studied the forage spatial and temporal dynamics in two different large ecological regions: Monte and Patagonia, under a single administrative unit (i.e. province). Since forage production estimations in arid rangelands are not trivial, we tested two different methods. We found that inter-annual variability in forage production explained the main differences between regions. At a regional level, zones with higher temporal variability in forage production registered less rural residents and farm numbers, but inverse situations were registered at sub-regional scales. We found a non-linear relationship between forage production variability and rural population density. We proposed differentiated policy recommendations regarding rangeland management and animal husbandry, considering both the social and ecological contexts. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
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