Conference on Environmental Humanities will seek to promote the topic in Latin America Since 2010, the SARAS Institute has been organizing a series of public conferences where experts, opinion makers, and national and international professionals from the academia come together. This year's conference will aim to facilitate intercultural dialogues, with alternative thinking on [...]

The course on collaborative territorial planning and ecosystem services will be held again in 2018 The course were taught by the University Center of the Eastern Region (CURE-UdelaR), the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism - University of the Republic (FADU) and SARAS Institute. The course promoted the integration of new [...]

Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region "Viento del Este" (East Wind) 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region was held from September 14 to 16, 2017. The activity was organized by the Regional University Center of the East - CURE (Department [...]

Channeling the analysis: modifications to the Irrigation Law in Uruguay (Article in Spanish) Autores: Néstor Mazzeo, Manfred Steffen, Micaela Trimble, Paula Bianchi, Cristina Zurbriggen y Hugo Inda* La reciente aprobación de las modificaciones a la Ley del Riego (Ley Nº 16858, del 3 de setiembre de 1997, denominada Riego con destino Agrario) [...]

SARAS developed a meeting amongst International experts in Biodiversity and Protected Areas of the Neotropics From the 25 to the 27 of September SARAS2 Institute hosted a meeting of the Project “Spatial Planning for Protected areas in Response to Climate change” (SPARC). Pablo Marquet (from the renowned Catholic University of Chile) organized [...]

Environmental sustainability in Uruguay: contributions from resilience thinking (Article in Spanish) Article recently published in its shorter version in the journal "Revista R - Mayo Sustentable", Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Se sugiere citar este documento de la siguiente manera: Mazzeo N., Zurbriggen C., Trimble M., Bianchi [...]

SARAS presented several papers at the 2017 Resilience Conference in Stockholm. Since 2008 and every three years, the Stockholm Resilience Center (Sweden) together with the Resilience Alliance (USA) hold the Resilience conference, which is attended by the most influential academics in resilience and sustainability. The Resilience 2017 conference was held on August [...]

Livestreaming I Seminar and Public Debate on Emerging territories in the Eastern Region of Uruguay The 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region will include over fifty presentations, national and international experts, and will seek to contribute to the decision-making processes on the territory in the [...]

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I Seminar and Public Debate on Emerging territories in the Eastern Region of Uruguay The 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region will include over fifty presentations, national and international experts, and will seek to contribute to the decision-making processes on the territory in the region. From [...]