LO COMPLEJO EN LAS PROBLEMÁTICAS AMBIENTALES: PROPUESTAS EPISTEMOLÓGICAS Y CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD.

Environmental issues have fractured our ways of thinking, knowing and acting. From these fissures, the notion of complexity has emerged. Complexity appears in the epistemological proposals of Rolando Garcia, Enrique Leff and Edgar Morin as a matrix for addressing environmental issues, as well as in natural sciences in general. Particularly, conservation biology has integrated this "complex" view into its goal to preserve biodiversity. Now, what distances and proximities appear between these "complexities"? The purpose of this paper is to characterize the complexity perspectives in Leff, Garcia and Morin, and to contrast such approaches with the theoretical and epistemological assumptions of conservation biology, examining their relationships and trying to establish a common horizon between those epistemological proposals and the environmental sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]