The study of the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems: theoretical approach from complexity
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The planetary environmental and climate crisis is generating pressures, threats and impacts on humans, biodiversity and ecosystems in all regions of the world. According to the literature, the above is associated with the vulnerability that socioecological systems present. Supported by complexity, the objective of this text is to address and propose a theoretical approach to the study of vulnerability in order to identify and describe the elements that determine it and thus contribute to the analysis of impacts. Under this approach, the vulnerability of systems is a state that results from the interaction of social, economic, environmental, physical and institutional components, organized as a whole and the impacts on the systems are given by exposure to different agents, events or risks. In such a way that, if a system is not exposed even if it is vulnerable, there is no possibility of suffering any damage.
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