Introduction
The purpose of the proposed study cycle is to develop methodologies and capabilities to scientifically support the design and evaluation of public policies and management tools that can contribute to meeting the growing demands of society on multiple goods and services (recreation, biodiversity, water, carbon sequestration, bioenergies, etc.) from land use and occupation. Trade offs and complementarities between these goods and services require interdisciplinary developments integrating a variety of scientific fields, such as ecology, agronomy, economics, sociology, geography, political science and ethics. There are already fields of interdisciplinary research of this type in approaches such as landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological economics and regional science, but more work is needed to integrate the various approaches in order to progress in terms of conceptual and solutions to implement.
