Perception of the agroecological socio-environmental landscape: outlines for human development in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

The municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga has been transformed, in recent decades, by conurbation processes in the metropolis of Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico, causing a deterioration of its social and environmental landscape. The traditional and rural landscape changes due to urban growth with the loss of natural, productive, and cultural resources. Observing the environment of the municipalities in conurbation, from the perception of the landscape of its inhabitants, shows the identity, participatory and deterioration nuances in the transition from rural to urban areas, as well as the search for development alternatives in the recognition and conservation of the agroecological landscape. The methodology for its interpretation is the reading of images of the landscape of the inhabitants of the place who, from early age, perceive the landscape dimensions of water, community, soil and flora and fauna, in their relationship with sustainability and food sovereignty. The objective is to apply a methodology for identify the elements that make up the layout of the agroecological landscape to indicate the conditions of its necessary heritage conservation in human development. Landscape valorization tools recognize an image of the landscape elements that make up for the systematization and classification of what is observed, up to the analysis and synthesis of the relationship between perceived elements.

Keywords:
Community perception; Landscape resources; Landscape characterization; Agroecology and sustainability