Principal Investigator: Úrsula Gonzales Barron
The Socio-Ecological Systems group aims to address the following scientific and sustainability challenges:
- Innovation in the agro-food chains and networks
- Circular economy in productive sectors in mountain areas
- Resource use efficiency (inputs, energy, labour) in agriculture, forestry, water management and other fields
- Multifunctionality of mountain systems and provision of highly valuable ecosystem services
- Resilience and adaptation and other responses of mountain systems to global change
- Biodiversity and ecosystem function under global change
This research group is dedicated to productive systems in mountain areas and the products of these systems. All systems addressed in Socio-Ecological Systems produce goods and services. Production goods in this Group are raw materials for Group 2 (Sustainable Processes and Products) where they will be transformed and valorized.
The main research topics of the Group are: