Interdisciplinary Congress in Montevideo The 1st Latin American Congress on Research and Interdisciplinary Higher Education took place in Montevideo, Uruguay on September 2016. Members of the SARAS Institute spoke about the Management of Water Resources in Uruguay, Advances, Limitations and Challenges. The presentation was based on a study that a large group of researchers carried [...]

Postgraduate Course on “Socio Ecological Systems” was offered for the first time at the SARAS Institute Headquarters. The course, “Socio-Ecological Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Management,” (offered in 2015 at the School of Sciences and the School of Engineering) was offered during the second semester of 2016 at the SARAS Institute Headquarters. The objectives of [...]

SARAS Institute Collaborates in the Construction of Public Policies at the National Level. Uruguay has developed this past year different initiatives that refer to the elaboration of policies or strategies using a participative approach. Within this framework, the SARAS Institute has been proactive in different initiatives of the Uruguayan Government such as the Climate Change [...]

SARAS Organized a Round Table Discussion About Water Governance Different Players Analyze Water Governance The SARAS Institute organized a round table discussion on “Management of Continental Aquatic Resources” within the framework of the symposium “Water is Life” organized by the Iniciar Foundation for Global action on October 25 and 26, 2016 in CURE headquarters, Maldonado. [...]

The SARAS Network Will Work Further on Concerns and Management of Land Use in Latin America How do external, global, and local factors shape decision making agents? How do we manage and use pressures so that they are channeled positively incentivizing sustainable actions that lead to production systems with a greater adaption capacity and [...]

Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm Fourth triennial conference on resilience taking place in Stockholm 21-23 August 2017 In 2008 Stockholm Resilience Centre launched the first resilience conference in Stockholm together with Resilience Alliance and other partner organizations. Since then, conferences have also taken place in Arizona (2011) and Montpellier (2014). The upcoming Resilience 2017 [...]

Experts met at SARAS to discuss Energy Transition in Latin America and Germany The Latin American and Caribbean region has one of the richest renewable energy sources in the world. According to estimates, exploiting only a small portion of the region’s total capacity of non-hydraulic renewable energy sources would be enough to cover the [...]