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Papers by Laura Abraham
Revista Científica Estudios e Investigaciones, 2021
Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), con sus 169 metas conexas, surgen en el año 2015... more Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), con sus 169 metas conexas, surgen en el año 2015 como una nueva agenda de retos globales para erradicar la pobreza, proteger el planeta y asegurar la prosperidad para todos alcanzables al 2030. Resulta pertinente acercar al sector de las empresas una agenda de logro de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, jugando las empresas vitivinícolas mendocinas un importante papel en la co-construcción del desarrollo sostenible. El trabajo pretende contribuir a la construcción de un Mapa Estratégico sectorial en materia de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. Como también elaborar una agenda de priorización sobre aquellas temáticas que serán necesarias profundizar
Wine Economics and Policy, 2020
On a climate change scenario, a discrete choice experiment was applied to elicit the trade-off va... more On a climate change scenario, a discrete choice experiment was applied to elicit the trade-off values for three environmental impacts of current viticultural management practices in vineyards of Mendoza, Argentina. Water availability for other uses was found to be the most concerning topic for the population, followed by use of chemical fertilizers and then by use and conservation of biodiversity. An increase of one percentage point in water availability was estimated to add each citizen on average 13.05 Argentinean pesos – 0.74 US dollars – per year in terms of increased welfare, a figure equivalent to the welfare drop a citizen would experience after an increase of 1.45 percentage points in the use of chemical fertilizers annually per hectare, or a decrease of 2.69 percentage points in the use and conservation of biodiversity. These trade-off values may help policy makers, planners, regional managers, and ecologists to take social preferences into account in setting resource alloc...
En este trabajo se analiza la produccion de uva declarada organica o agroecologica en Mendoza, Ar... more En este trabajo se analiza la produccion de uva declarada organica o agroecologica en Mendoza, Argentina, con el objetivo de conocer la estructura y funcionamiento de estos sistemas de produccion para evaluar y proponer mejoras. Para tal fin, se diseno un formulario de encuesta donde se consultaron variables tecnologicas, economicas, ambientales y sociales. La encuesta fue realizada a 60 productores. A partir de los datos obtenidos, fue posible conocer la distribucion espacial de los predios, el perfil del productor, las motivaciones de la adopcion de este tipo de produccion, la tradicion productiva, la estructura del capital y de la fuerza laboral, ademas de la configuracion de las unidades —por ejemplo, combinacion de actividades—. Se identificaron tipos productivos representativos mediante un analisis multivariado. Cada tipo fue posteriormente caracterizado por modelos que reflejaron tanto los aspectos economicos —los factores productivos— como los aspectos ambientales y sociales...
The landscape is a perception of the agroecosystem valued as aesthetic, cultural, recreational an... more The landscape is a perception of the agroecosystem valued as aesthetic, cultural, recreational and touristic, for conservation, among others. It is considered an environmental service and cultural heritage according to the International UN Conference 1972 (Paris, France). The agroecosystem of Mendoza's Northern Oasis creates a landscape with the presence of vineyards framed by the Andes, which is a scenic resource characterized as an environmental cultural service. The disordered process of urban growth in North of Mendoza, threatens the provision of the mentioned service. In this paper, a qualitative and a quantitative assessment aim to characterize the perceptions of urban residents on the vineyards landscape. Two methodologies were applied: expert opinion through focus groups and survey data collection. By working with focus groups, positive impacts of this kind of landscape were recognized. In the 638 surveys made in the urban area of Mendoza, a six landscape images valuation was requested (with a score of 1 to 10, where 10 is the maximum). The highest average scores were for the view of Aconcagua, secondly the agricultural landscape with vineyards and mountains and thirdly another view of vineyards in the North Oasis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Books by Laura Abraham
The oases of the province of Mendoza occupy a bit more than 3% of the provincial area. These tiny... more The oases of the province of Mendoza occupy a bit more than 3% of the provincial area. These tiny enclaves, however, house almost the entire population and an important part of the economic activity takes place there. Technically they are identified as anthropomorphic oaseswhich constitute adapted spaces. The capture and conduction of the mountain rivers made possible the development of irrigated and intensive agroecosystems.
As a palimpsest, the territory treasures the traces of each historical period and the resulting landscape synthesizes it. Beyond the productive, regulatory and support functions, the oases have a unique imprint, very different from the desert that surrounds them. The social perception of this system is understood, in this work, as landscape.
The metropolitan area of Mendoza, with more than one million inhabitants, shows, like many cities, a growing expansive trend that invades the land and in a certain way denatures it. This concern is the common thread of the present works, where authors from various disciplines address the devaluation of the social perception of the phenomenon.
We are aware that when these environments are being modified, they lose functions such as food provision, regulation of hydrological cycles and housing biodiversity. Urbanization also makes irrigation infrastructure works obsolete, a historical investment so onerous that it would be impossible to replicate today. These aspects, which are very important in themselves, are not dealt with in this work.
The analysis and assessment of the landscape, particularly that of our oasis under irrigation, constitutes the purpose of this work. It is the result of several years of local research, with the participation of specialists from landscaping, urban environmental studies, town planning, and environmental and agrarian economics.
In the first place, the landscape is approached as a theoretical object in all its dimensions, which is later developed under different academic perspectives. The following analysis continues to inquire about the landscapes of local cultural interest in purely wine-growing areas.
Then the gaze focuses on urban growth and the role of the environment in Mendoza, introducing the concept of cultural landscape, resulting from social processes. Subsequently, a theoretical treatment of ecosystem services in general is carried out, which is followed by the analysis of the contribution of the agroecosystem to these services, particularly focused on those of cultural nature.
The description of the territorial transformations of the city and its surroundings are presented below, focusing the processes on population growth and urban expansion.
The next chapter shows the results of the first exploratory work on the perceptual phenomenon through focus groups. This study facilitated the design of a survey to the urban inhabitants regarding the perception and personal valuation of the services of a viticultural agroecosystem, in this case the one corresponding to the departments of Luján de Cuyo and Maipú. Then the descriptive analysis of the responses obtained is included, which is followed by the result of the econometric assessment of the landscape based on the responses acquired previously. The work culminates with a set of general conclusions.
The aspiration of the authors is to install in the public policy in general and in land use planning plans in particular, an agenda on the preservation, enhancement and improvement of the landscape. This asset not only constitutes a factor with economic, patrimonial and cultural impact, but also a source of well-being for present and future generations.
Revista Científica Estudios e Investigaciones, 2021
Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), con sus 169 metas conexas, surgen en el año 2015... more Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), con sus 169 metas conexas, surgen en el año 2015 como una nueva agenda de retos globales para erradicar la pobreza, proteger el planeta y asegurar la prosperidad para todos alcanzables al 2030. Resulta pertinente acercar al sector de las empresas una agenda de logro de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, jugando las empresas vitivinícolas mendocinas un importante papel en la co-construcción del desarrollo sostenible. El trabajo pretende contribuir a la construcción de un Mapa Estratégico sectorial en materia de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. Como también elaborar una agenda de priorización sobre aquellas temáticas que serán necesarias profundizar
Wine Economics and Policy, 2020
On a climate change scenario, a discrete choice experiment was applied to elicit the trade-off va... more On a climate change scenario, a discrete choice experiment was applied to elicit the trade-off values for three environmental impacts of current viticultural management practices in vineyards of Mendoza, Argentina. Water availability for other uses was found to be the most concerning topic for the population, followed by use of chemical fertilizers and then by use and conservation of biodiversity. An increase of one percentage point in water availability was estimated to add each citizen on average 13.05 Argentinean pesos – 0.74 US dollars – per year in terms of increased welfare, a figure equivalent to the welfare drop a citizen would experience after an increase of 1.45 percentage points in the use of chemical fertilizers annually per hectare, or a decrease of 2.69 percentage points in the use and conservation of biodiversity. These trade-off values may help policy makers, planners, regional managers, and ecologists to take social preferences into account in setting resource alloc...
En este trabajo se analiza la produccion de uva declarada organica o agroecologica en Mendoza, Ar... more En este trabajo se analiza la produccion de uva declarada organica o agroecologica en Mendoza, Argentina, con el objetivo de conocer la estructura y funcionamiento de estos sistemas de produccion para evaluar y proponer mejoras. Para tal fin, se diseno un formulario de encuesta donde se consultaron variables tecnologicas, economicas, ambientales y sociales. La encuesta fue realizada a 60 productores. A partir de los datos obtenidos, fue posible conocer la distribucion espacial de los predios, el perfil del productor, las motivaciones de la adopcion de este tipo de produccion, la tradicion productiva, la estructura del capital y de la fuerza laboral, ademas de la configuracion de las unidades —por ejemplo, combinacion de actividades—. Se identificaron tipos productivos representativos mediante un analisis multivariado. Cada tipo fue posteriormente caracterizado por modelos que reflejaron tanto los aspectos economicos —los factores productivos— como los aspectos ambientales y sociales...
The landscape is a perception of the agroecosystem valued as aesthetic, cultural, recreational an... more The landscape is a perception of the agroecosystem valued as aesthetic, cultural, recreational and touristic, for conservation, among others. It is considered an environmental service and cultural heritage according to the International UN Conference 1972 (Paris, France). The agroecosystem of Mendoza's Northern Oasis creates a landscape with the presence of vineyards framed by the Andes, which is a scenic resource characterized as an environmental cultural service. The disordered process of urban growth in North of Mendoza, threatens the provision of the mentioned service. In this paper, a qualitative and a quantitative assessment aim to characterize the perceptions of urban residents on the vineyards landscape. Two methodologies were applied: expert opinion through focus groups and survey data collection. By working with focus groups, positive impacts of this kind of landscape were recognized. In the 638 surveys made in the urban area of Mendoza, a six landscape images valuation was requested (with a score of 1 to 10, where 10 is the maximum). The highest average scores were for the view of Aconcagua, secondly the agricultural landscape with vineyards and mountains and thirdly another view of vineyards in the North Oasis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The oases of the province of Mendoza occupy a bit more than 3% of the provincial area. These tiny... more The oases of the province of Mendoza occupy a bit more than 3% of the provincial area. These tiny enclaves, however, house almost the entire population and an important part of the economic activity takes place there. Technically they are identified as anthropomorphic oaseswhich constitute adapted spaces. The capture and conduction of the mountain rivers made possible the development of irrigated and intensive agroecosystems.
As a palimpsest, the territory treasures the traces of each historical period and the resulting landscape synthesizes it. Beyond the productive, regulatory and support functions, the oases have a unique imprint, very different from the desert that surrounds them. The social perception of this system is understood, in this work, as landscape.
The metropolitan area of Mendoza, with more than one million inhabitants, shows, like many cities, a growing expansive trend that invades the land and in a certain way denatures it. This concern is the common thread of the present works, where authors from various disciplines address the devaluation of the social perception of the phenomenon.
We are aware that when these environments are being modified, they lose functions such as food provision, regulation of hydrological cycles and housing biodiversity. Urbanization also makes irrigation infrastructure works obsolete, a historical investment so onerous that it would be impossible to replicate today. These aspects, which are very important in themselves, are not dealt with in this work.
The analysis and assessment of the landscape, particularly that of our oasis under irrigation, constitutes the purpose of this work. It is the result of several years of local research, with the participation of specialists from landscaping, urban environmental studies, town planning, and environmental and agrarian economics.
In the first place, the landscape is approached as a theoretical object in all its dimensions, which is later developed under different academic perspectives. The following analysis continues to inquire about the landscapes of local cultural interest in purely wine-growing areas.
Then the gaze focuses on urban growth and the role of the environment in Mendoza, introducing the concept of cultural landscape, resulting from social processes. Subsequently, a theoretical treatment of ecosystem services in general is carried out, which is followed by the analysis of the contribution of the agroecosystem to these services, particularly focused on those of cultural nature.
The description of the territorial transformations of the city and its surroundings are presented below, focusing the processes on population growth and urban expansion.
The next chapter shows the results of the first exploratory work on the perceptual phenomenon through focus groups. This study facilitated the design of a survey to the urban inhabitants regarding the perception and personal valuation of the services of a viticultural agroecosystem, in this case the one corresponding to the departments of Luján de Cuyo and Maipú. Then the descriptive analysis of the responses obtained is included, which is followed by the result of the econometric assessment of the landscape based on the responses acquired previously. The work culminates with a set of general conclusions.
The aspiration of the authors is to install in the public policy in general and in land use planning plans in particular, an agenda on the preservation, enhancement and improvement of the landscape. This asset not only constitutes a factor with economic, patrimonial and cultural impact, but also a source of well-being for present and future generations.