Salas Zapata, Walter AlfredoRíos Osorio, Leonardo AlbertoÁlvarez Del Castillo, Javier2012-04-122012-04-1220111794-4449http://hdl.handle.net/10567/150In sustainability research the range of social-ecological systems is so wide that many times the concept of sustainability can only have a real meaning if it is related to the particular system studied, bringing a variety of ways to understand sustainability that can, very frequently, be contradictory. Research about sustainability would not be able to theorize if each research work and paper is based on a different sustainability concept. This essay proposes a classification of socioecological systems in order to demonstrate how all of them can be analyzed under a sustainability concept.esDesarrollo sostenibleCorporación Universitaria LasallistaSistemas socioecológicosSostenibilidadEcologíaMedio ambienteResiliencia socioecológicaBases conceptuales para una clasificación de los sistemas socioecológicos de la investigación en sostenibilidadConceptual bases for a classification of socioecological systems in sustainability researchBases conceituais para uma classificação dos sistemas socioecológicos na investigação em sustentabilidadeArticle