Los paisajes de la montaña mediterránea malagueña ante el desafío del cambio global. Una propuesta metodologica

Abstract

The Global Change is referred to all those modifications taking place worldwide affecting the global earth system and human activity. These changes affect natural system elements (water, air, soils, biodiversity) altering the ecosystems and generating negative impacts in society in the framework of a positive feedback. One of the main results is the changing landscape. To study this, a worldwide and commonly applied methodology is that based on the Bertrand´s geosystem concept, named GTP method. This is very useful to deal with the study of the eco‐geomorphologic landscape: eco‐ geomorphologic degradation processes, such erosion or carbon loss, acting in the landscape are consequences of the relations between its configurational elements (climate, relief, vegetation, water and land use/human activity), all of them highly dependent on the spatial and temporal scale. In the Mediterranean mountain landscape from the Province of Málaga (southern Spain), a climatic threshold can be observed with dual incidence in the landscape, defining two areas with sub‐humid and semiarid conditions. This study aims the analysis of the climatic variability and spatial and temporal changes in eco‐geomorphologic processes associated to modifications of the socioeconomic conditions, in the framework of the current Global Change, in order to generate future scenarios to be considered in future and sustainable land management strategies and policies, through the consolidation of a circular economy.