The land system as a platform for integration and interpretation of complex environmental-society relations

Authors

  • Evandro Albiach Branco Centro de Ciência do Sistema Terrestre do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (CCST-INPE), Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP) São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil.
  • Daniel Rondinelli Roquetti Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
  • Evandro Mateus Moretto Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v8n3.2017.24518

Keywords:

Sistema terrestre, Interdisciplinaridade, Integração, Complexidade, Uso e ocupação da terra

Abstract

The Land System, as a terrestrial component of the Earth System, constitutes an eminently coupled environment-societies system. For operating in complex interface between social and natural fields, the land system science emerges as a platform for integration of different dimensions of environmental change. In this sense, the present paper aims to explore relations between this theme, interdisciplinarity and complexity. The paper identifies this integration bias from three characteristics: a) the potential for representation of plurality and multidimensionality of several knowledge systems, in different stages of stabilization; b) be endowed of a role of mediation in socioecological processes, acting as cause and consequence, simultaneously; and c) as a result of previous items, be framed as an eminently complex system and, thus, face up to its set of characteristics and behaviors.

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Evandro Albiach Branco, Centro de Ciência do Sistema Terrestre do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (CCST-INPE), Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP) São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil.

Mestre em Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos, Pesquisador do Centro de Ciência do Sistema Terrestre, do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Ambientais (CCST/INPE), Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP) São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil.

Daniel Rondinelli Roquetti, Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Mestre em Ciências da Engenharia Ambiental, Grupo de Pesquisa em Planejamento e Gestão Ambiental (Plangea-USP), Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Evandro Mateus Moretto, Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Doutor em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Professor Associado do Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE-USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

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2017-12-29

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Branco, E. A., Roquetti, D. R., & Moretto, E. M. (2017). The land system as a platform for integration and interpretation of complex environmental-society relations. Sustainability in Debate, 8(3), 111–125. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v8n3.2017.24518

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