This article presents a theoretical-practical approach as a basis for decision-making for the application of mostly environmental public policy tools, which contributes to understanding and dimensioning socio-ecological systems from a new approach which deals with a complex conceptual proposal that integrates the articulation of ecosystems, the human system, ecosystem services and the actions that intervene in them, under a multifunctional exchange of energy to satisfy the goods that humanity occupies for its subsistence. In this sense, the results of the work present some approaches and points of view in the complex, holistic and multivariate understanding of management actions around socio-ecological systems, where it seeks to understand how they should be managed sustainably through the acting of the theoretical conceptualization of the Pentahelix, (environment, society, government, industry, and academia) in the face of current new challenges, therefore, this proposal presents the instruments and actions that could be implemented for the strategic management of these systems.