The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of alternative methods on constructing composite indicators to measure global sustainability of the agricultural sector. This comparison is implemented empirically on the irrigated agriculture of the Duero basin (Spain) as a case...

Agricultural landscape is a complex system composed by interrelated ecological, economic and social sub-systems. Disentangling interactions and mechanisms in such a context is, therefore, difficult and involves knowledge and methodologies developed in different scientific fields. In this paper...

El presente trabajo, de carácter metodológico, introduce el uso de los modelos en el análisis de políticas agrarias. Comenzando por una descripción genérica del proceso de análisis de políticas públicas, se continúa con la definición y clasificación de los modelos para el análisis....