**8. Final considerations**

The valorization of the Floristic-Holistic Method stands out not only for the contributions and scope of the method, but also as a basic method against the main environmental problems, related to problems associated with the South American Arid Diagonal. Some of the problems are soil loss, water deficit, changes in use, clearing, affectation of native forests, conservation of protected natural areas, urban and rural planning, land use planning, zoning, environmental impact assessment processes and strategic environmental assessment, clearing, overgrazing, overlapping land use, loss of native vegetation, modifications in heterogeneous vegetation, affectation, and conservation of flora species protected by national and international regulations. As mentioned before, the Floristic-Holistic Method allows the environmental management of the ecosystem goods and services of the territories, the importance of international conventions and treaties, the international and national flora protection regulations, and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), within which is, among others, the conservation of ecosystems, as one of the fundamental aspects on which to develop science, technology, and lines of research.

Considering the 21 years of data collection, the results are encouraging. The Floristic-Holistic Method allows establishing new horizons (in terms of considerations and scope) for phyto-ecological field studies for arid, semiarid, and subhumid zones. Methods that guarantee the sustainable use of ecosystem goods and services, that allow environmental planning and evaluation in different types of territories, that minimize and mitigate possible impacts, and that favor technical scientific knowledge and development considering the zonal human resource are key tools for an environmental development that considers all the actors involved.

Concrete, applicable, and practical databases also favor decision-making, the sociopolitical cultural context of Latin America, policies, plans, and programs by the states, which integrate scientific and technical visions together with the needs of an environment, which consider the human actor as the main positive and negative modifier, as well as a generator of new paths, with a holistic horizon and sustainable in the vision of our environment.

#### **General objectives**

