GOVERNAGUA: “TRANSFORMING WATER GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AMERICA: FROM REACTION TO ADAPTATION AND ANTICIPATION”.

AIM

The aim of this project is to contribute to the provision of ecosystem services and human well-being associated with water, through an improvement in anticipatory water governance in South America. This will be accomplished by strengthening the adaptation, anticipation and knowledge co-creation capacities.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Systematize learning through a comparative analysis of water governance in six basins located in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay (two from each country), with emphasis on the relation to the water provision and water scarcity crisis.
Strengthen people’s and institutions’ ability to anticipate changes in the system and the consequences of the decisions they make, for an adaptive and anticipatory water governance.
Lay the foundation for a system of experimental anticipatory governance with the participation of the various actors operating as a collective intelligence system that reports local, national and regional policies, who have the ability to anticipate and transform the problems of the basins.

LEADING ORGANIZATIONS

SARAS – South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies
Energy and Environment Institute, University of Sao Paulo, IEE/USP, Brazil
Patagonian Institute for the Study of Continental Ecosystems, IPEEC-CONICET-CENPAT, Argentina
San Luis Institute of Applied Mathematics, IMASL-CONICET, National University of San Luis, Argentina

ACADEMIC PARTNERS

OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL PARTNERS

FINANCE

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) – 2018 Co-funded Small Grant Program “The role of ecosystem services in adaptation to global change for human well-being” (SGP-HW).

SARAS’ ROLE

Host institution. Research coordinator.

PERIOD OF EXECUTION

Start: June 2019
End: May 2022

CONTACT

Micaela Trimble, SARAS Institute, Uruguay mica.trimble@saras-institute.org
Pedro R. Jacobi, Institute of Energy and Environment, São Paulo University (IEE/USP), Brasil prjacobi@gmail.com
Esteban Jobbágy, San Luis Institute of Applied Mathematics (IMASL-CONICET), National University of San Luis, Argentina jobbagy@gmail.com
Miguel Pascual, Patagonian Institute for the Study of Continental Ecosystems (IPEEC-CONICET-CENPAT), Argentina pascual@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar
For further information about the project please write to: governagua@saras-institute.org

DOCUMENTS

Synthesis of the GovernAgua project SARAS – IAI

GovernAgua Presentation – Official Launch Only in Spanish

GovernAgua study basins infograph

GovernAgua presentation flyer Spanish version

GovernAgua presentation flyer Portuguese version

Report summary: Analysis of governance and learning from the crisis in Sauce Lagoon Basin, Maldonado-Uruguay (Spanish only)

Report summary: Analysis of governance and learning from the crisis in Cisne Lagoon Basin, Canelones-Uruguay (Spanish only)

Report Summary: Analysis of Water Governance in the El Morro Basin, San Luis Province, Argentina (Spanish only)

Report summary: Governance analysis and lessons learned from the crisis in the Lower Valley of the Chubut River Basin – VIRCH, Argentina (Spanish only)

Report summary: Analysis of governance and lessons learned from the crises in the Watersheds of the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundaí rivers – PCJ and Paraíba del Sur – São Paulo, Brazil (Portuguese only)

New public policy report: “Adaptive and anticipatory governance of water in crisis contexts: basin analysis in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay”
Only in Spanish and Portuguese

Virtual event report “Learning about water crises in South America: Dialogues and exchanges between basin actors
from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Spanish and Portuguese

“How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America”. Ecology & Society

Visit the project website http://governagua.org