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Landscape Ecology and Conservation for Building Resilience and Adaptation to Global Change in Venezuela

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The elements and components of the landscape serve as a scale for the analysis, action and planning of the conservation and restoration strategies of biodiversity, and climate adaptation. This study presents an analytical framework focused on building resilience and adaptation measures to changing climate and environmental conditions. Such a framework builds on the diagnosis of previous evaluations of landscapes of western Venezuela in which geomatics tools and Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (OSpC) were used. The integration of information on ecosystems and landscapes in the design of adaptation proposals with a socio-ecological approach would make it possible to compensate for the lack of perception of the existing synergy between drivers of change, the degree of exposure to climatic disturbances. Such an approach would also promote the resilience of the livelihoods of the inhabitants by favouring the conservation of vulnerable areas and biodiversity, and the adaptation of local communities to develop an anticipatory climate adaptation.

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  1. Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

    Eulogio Chacón-Moreno, Isabel Olivares & Georgina Navarro

  2. Programa de Ciencias Ambientales de la Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda Santa Ana de Coro, Estado Falcón, 4101, Venezuela

    Isabel Olivares

  3. Escuela de Geografía, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

    Anderson J. Albarrán

  4. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Social de la Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

    Yorman Paredes

  5. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

    Carla I. Aranguren

  6. Oceanografía y Ecología Marina, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Iguá 4225, POB 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Gustavo J. Nagy

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  2. Oceanografia y Ecologia Marina. Coastal Climate Science, Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Gustavo J. Nagy

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    Pastor David Chávez Muñoz

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Chacón-Moreno, E. et al. (2020). Landscape Ecology and Conservation for Building Resilience and Adaptation to Global Change in Venezuela. In: Leal Filho, W., Nagy, G., Borga, M., Chávez Muñoz, P., Magnuszewski, A. (eds) Climate Change, Hazards and Adaptation Options. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37425-9_7

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