| Indicador |
Point range (from 0 as the most limiting score, to 3 as the most enabling) |
Dimension 1: Ecosystem services and human wellbeing
Practices and ecological and social conditions that have an influence on ecosystem services and human wellbeing
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State of the ecosystem and its services
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0. Ecosystem degradation exceeds the capacity for natural regeneration and intervention is required to recover ecosystem services.
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| 1. The ecosystem provides some of its potential services but one is degraded and is not provided in sufficient quality or quantity. |
| 2. The ecosystem provides expected and habitual services, but there is no active management to assure sustainability. |
| 3. Active conservation and restoration strategies exist to allow restoring, sustaining and extending the quality and quantity of ecosystem services provision. |
Socioeconomic status of the population:
Measured according to the Unsatisfied Basic Needs index (NBI in Spanish) |
0. More than 95% of the population is poor. The Unsatisfied Basic Needs index (NBI, in Spanish) determines poverty on the basis of five components: i) quality of housing, ii) overcrowding, iii) access to basic services, iv) access to education and v) economic capacity. If the household is poor in at least one of the components, its members are considered poor. |
| 1. Between 75 and 95% of the population is poor. |
| 2.Between 55 and 75% of the population is poor. |
| 3. Less than 55% of the population is poor. |
| Pressures and social and ecological process of environmental degradation |
0.There are degradation processes and pressures that interact with climate threats, generating impacts on natural resources and livelihoods, and reducing adaptation options. |
| 1. There are degradation processes and pressures that are significant and widely extended in the landscape. |
| 2. There are degradation processes and pressures that are less significant, punctual and localized. |
| 3. Pressures and processes of degradation are not significant or are very limited. |
Dimension 2: Organizations and institutions (governance)
Organizational and institutional mechanisms regulating knowledge and practices |
| Institutions and institutional linkages |
0. There are no institutional structures, or they are weak and do not allow for linkages among actors at different scales. |
| 1. There is a set of active actors in communication, but without stable ties. |
| 2. There is an institutional structure that links actors, creating cooperative linkages. |
| 3. There is a stable dialogue through linkages and institutional structures that generate documents and legal or planning frameworks and agreements. This situation establishes flexible frameworks that allow for a balance between common and individual actions. |
| Local, social, community and collaborative management |
0. Actions are planned vertically and decided upon by external actors without local participation. |
| 1. Local actors participate in socialization and implementation of actions decided by external actors or superior levels. |
| 2. Local actors actively participate and have decision-making capacity and responsibility for actions. |
| 3. Active local participation is supported by institutional structures at upper levels that guarantee local decision-making capacity and responsibility. |
| Planning |
0. There is no structured and organized planning. |
| 1. There is vertical planning in which only external and upper level actors have a vision about the future. |
| 2. There is long-term planning in which local and upper level or external actors have a vision of the future. However, those visions are not able to translate into concrete actions, policies or legal frameworks. |
| 3. Long-term planning by the community is supported by legal frameworks and concrete policies are shared and respected by actors at multiple levels. That planning is based on a long-term vision regarding desirable ecosystem states, with trust and cooperation, respect and linkage of the local vision with other levels. |
| Funds |
0. Funds are scarce, irregular and only available for specific activities. |
| 1. Funds allow for implementation of actions. |
| 2. Funds allow for implementation and monitoring actions. |
| 3. Funding is sustained over the long term and permits implementation, linkages and monitoring actions. |
Dimension 3: Knowledge
Knowledge, technologies, and processes for building knowledge and innovation that sustains practices |
| Availability of information |
0. There is a lack of information, or it is poor and badly articulated. |
| 1. There are base-line studies on various subjects and dimensions. |
| 2. There is a diagnosis created by the project that is implementing the actions and is linked with strengthening capacities and awareness. |
| 3. There is constant monitoring and review of available information. |
| Dialogue among knowledge types and knowledge co-production |
0. Knowledge is produced mainly by technicians and experts from outside the local community and ecosystem. |
| 1. Knowledge is generated with community participation. |
| 2. The participatory process adapts knowledge and technologies to the context. |
| 3. The co-production of knowledge integrates current and traditional local knowledge with technical and scientific knowledge. |
| Action in response to information |
0. There is no action in response to the knowledge generated, nor a connection between actions and knowledge. |
| 1. Current practices are modified according to existing knowledge (simple learning loop). |
| 2. New knowledge is used to incorporate and create management practices (double and triple learning loop). |
| 3. Adaptation actions consciously systematize knowledge to modify management, through evaluation and monitoring. |
| Technological innovation |
0. Technologies are not modified, but adopted just as they were conceived by their external creators. |
1. New technologies are incorporated in a process of technology transfer of “black boxes” that do not
generate local capacities and understanding about principles underlying their functioning. |
| 2. There is adaptation and re-signifying of existing knowledge and technology, acquired or traditional, that is applied and adapted to local, current needs. |
| 3. There is innovation through the integration and combination of sources and types of knowledge to create new applications and technologies. |
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Source: Pere Ariza-Montobbio.
Source: Paola Maldonado and Nicolás Cuvi, based on MAE (2014).
Source: Nicolás Cuvi and Pere Arize-Montobbio.