Viticulture Economic and Ecological Benefit

Dear Colleagues,

Facing the challenges of the Anthropocene requires rethinking the management of our territory, both in natural areas and also in those most transformed by humans. It is necessary to move from a vision in which these zones are conceived as areas intended for the provision of food to a multifunctional view in which, together with provisioning services, regulating services, cultural services, and even the value of existence are also promoted. Various public (IPBES, SEEA, WAVES, etc.) and private (Capitals Coalition, WBCSD, etc.) initiatives are making significant efforts to include these natural capital approaches, favoring responsible decision-making and the development of innovative proposals focused on nature-based solutions. The world of wine is open to this new vision of agricultural management. Wine-growing landscapes not only provide wine but also bring significant benefits to society, both in terms of regulating services and culture. For instance, these wine-growing landscapes contribute to carbon storage and are the habitat for numerous species, some of them with conservation interest, while others provide different services such as pollination or biological control. Furthermore, enormous cultural and ethnographic heritage attracting an increasing number of tourists is also associated with the world of wine. All these contributions can be introduced into decision-making processes and become a differentiating factor for wineries and territories. For these approaches based on natural capital to become widespread, it is necessary to deepen the conceptual development and new techniques and methodologies aimed at identifying and quantifying all these ecosystem services provided by wine-growing landscapes, as well as the economic and social valuation of these contributions. Against this backdrop, this Special Issue of Agronomy aims to compile articles focused on advance knowledge of the ecosystem services provided by vineyards and viticultural landscapes; biophysical characterization of ecosystem services in wine-growing landscapes; economic valuation of natural capital in wine-growing landscapes; contributions to social capital of ecosystem services from winery landscapes.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Miguel Martínez-Graña
Prof. Dr. Fernando Rodríguez López
Dr. Roberto Rodríguez-Díaz
Dr. Víctor Colino-Rabanal
Guest Editors

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