The focus of this program is the landscape that emerges from the relationship between ecosystems and society. Analyzing how different drivers of change impact ecosystem dynamics, their natural values, and the goods and services they provide—together with multiobjective planning—is key to ensuring the sustainable provision of these goods and services in the context of global change.

Our work focuses on landscape ecology, ecohydrology and fluvial dynamics, natural disturbances, changes in land-use and forest management, mosaic landscapes, and the ecological and hydrological processes that govern ecosystem dynamics. We also project future scenarios and estimate the provision of ecosystem goods and services under multiple contexts of change, while developing and applying innovative tools for modeling and planning agroforestry landscapes to support decision-making.

We emphasize the use of advanced methodologies and technologies to characterize landscape conditions, multiscale modeling of ecological and hydrological processes, and forest management planning at the forest, landscape, basin, and regional levels. We also develop tools to support decision-making. All these elements are key to analyzing landscape dynamics and the ecosystem services derived from them, as well as selecting efficient policies for integrated land management and planning.