Intensificación agrícola y pérdida de servicios ambientales en el partido de Azul (Provincia de Buenos Aires) entre 2002-2011

In recent decades, Argentinean agriculture, especially in the Pampas ecoregion, has undergone a remarkable expansion based on technological development. This process allows increasing productivity but it increases costs in terms of loss of environmental services. This paper aims at analyzing the loss of some support and regulation services in the period 2002-2011, in a representative area of the ecoregion: Azul County. In order to conduct such analysis, two sustainability indicators were used: quality conservation of soil and water (QCSW) and biodiversity conservation (BC). Land use changes by...