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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1794-4449</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Lasallista de Investigación]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Lasallista Investig.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1794-4449</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Corporación Universitaria Lasallista]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1794-44492011000200015</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Bases conceptuales para una clasificación de los sistemas socioecológicos de la investigación en sostenibilidad]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Conceptual bases for a classification of socioecological systems in sustainability research]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Bases conceituais para uma classificação dos sistemas socioecológicos na investigação em sustentabilidade]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Salas-Zapata]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Walter Alfredo]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ríos-Osorio]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Leonardo Alberto]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Álvarez-Del Castillo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Javier]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A02"/>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="A01">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Antioquia  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Medellín ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="A02">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Terrassa ]]></addr-line>
<country>España</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2011</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2011</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>136</fpage>
<lpage>142</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1794-44492011000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1794-44492011000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1794-44492011000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[En la investigación en sostenibilidad se estudia una gama tan amplia de sistemas socioecológicos, que el concepto de sostenibilidad con frecuencia solo tiene sentido en relación con el sistema particular de interés, dando lugar a una variedad, y a veces contradictoria, manera de entender la sostenibilidad. La investigación en sostenibilidad no podría proponer teorías sobre los sistemas sostenibles si cada investigación se ampara en un concepto diferente de sostenibilidad. En este ensayo nosotros proponemos una clasificación de los sistemas socioecológicos para demostrar cómo todos ellos pueden ser analizados bajo un mismo concepto de sostenibilidad.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[In sustainability research the range of social-ecological systems is so wide that many times the concept of sustainability can only have a real meaning if it is related to the particular system studied, bringing a variety of ways to understand sustainability that can, very frequently, be contradictory. Research about sustainability would not be able to theorize if each research work and paper is based on a different sustainability concept. This essay proposes a classification of socioecological systems in order to demonstrate how all of them can be analyzed under a sustainability concept.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Na investigação em sustentabilidade se estuda uma gama tão ampia de sistemas sócio-ecológicos, que com freqüência o conceito de sustentabilidade só faz sentido em relação com o sistema particular de interesse dando lugar a uma variedade, e às vezes contraditório, de maneira de entenderá sustentabilidade. A investigação em sustentabilidade não poderia propor teorías sobre os sistemas sustentáveis se cada investigação se ampara num conceito diferente de sustentabilidade. Neste ensaio nós propomos uma classificação dos sistemas sócio-ecológicos para demonstrar como todos eles podem ser analisados sob urn conceito de sustentabilidade.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[desarrollo sostenible]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[resiliencia socioecológica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[investigación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[concepto de sostenibilidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sustainable development]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[socioecological resilience]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[research]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sustainability concept]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Desenvolvimento sustentável]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[resiliência sócio-ecológica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[investigação]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[conceito de sustentabilidade]]></kwd>
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