Transformations towards Sustainability
Validation of an Ecosystems Ontology for Urban Contexts
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https://doi.org/10.32870/rvcs.v0i13.223Keywords:
urban contexts, transformation, complex systems, ecosistemsAbstract
While international agreements point to an increase in consensus towards sustainability from within urban contexts, there are problems to reach such increases in the differing approaches to achieve them. It is then intended, from a phenomenological perspective, to understand a transversal and multiscalar ontology with which characteristics or traits in these urban contexts can be identified that can increase or decrease their conduciveness towards sustainability. For this purpose, fundamentals are proposed based on a deductive methodology with a non-quanti- tative axiomatic approach where the understandings of the terms are intertwined with different disciplinary approaches that are considered necessary, such as ecology, well-being, and complex systems. From this exercise, operating models are derived that allow the definition of structures and general characteristics for urban contexts and their transformations towards sustainability. From these ontological foundations, a methodological procedure is then carried out to validate them, which consists of a matrix of weighted relationships that contrast success cases cited from a consultation with experts against the ontological foundations, obtaining results that point to four fundamental capacities in the urban (eco)systems: componential capacities, balance capabilities, recursion capabilities, and integration capabilities. Although the results are not ascribed to a particular discipline, it is expected to establish the bases for the elaboration of methodological approaches that contribute towards the public and social management of ur- ban transformations, increasing the conductivity for these contexts towards global sustainability.Metrics
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