The sustainable land management to the landscape scale. Analysis from a scientific and social perspective

Context: The negative effects of climate change and growing, intensive and unsustainable food production systems are threatening the stability of landscapes and therefore against their components, including human beings. The implementation of the principles of sustainable land management provide a group of social and ecological benefits. However, it is applied mostly in very small spaces as an agroecosystem. Objective: Analyze from a scientific and social approach the need to scale sustainable land management practices to the landscape as a category of geographic space. Methods: The documentary review and integration of sustainable land management approaches and the need for their scaling to the landscape are applied, together with other sustainability approaches such as agroecology. Results: A theoretical void is perceived regarding the scaling of sustainable land management to landscape as a category of geographic space. The need for scaling is fundamentally justified in that the magnitude of ecological and social problems transcends confined spaces such as a farm or agroecosystem. Conclusions: The landscape is an intrinsic part of the cultural identity, it constitutes a heritage of great natural and anthropic value that must be respected. Scaling up sustainable land management practices to the landscape is a necessity. Natural, economic and social problems related to land use go beyond the limits of an agroecosystem for their solution.