Analysis of vulnerability, resilience and climate change adaptation of Uruguay's productive sectors The agricultural sector is highly dependent on climate conditions. It becomes vitally important to identify alternatives for adapting to variability and climate change in the country's different productive sectors in order to reduce vulnerability and increase system resilience. In this context, and [...]

Available for download: Climate Change Case Studies There are significant gaps in creating knowledge on climate change from (from research and project experience) and decision making. Universities and higher education institutions in the region have the responsibility and the challenge of providing training on the latest advances in the field in order to train professionals [...]

Webinar: Climate change, analysis and decision-making processes The processes of analysis and decision making linked to the management of climate variability and climate change are characterized by high complexity and considerable uncertainty. In this contex, the analysis of alternatives and approaches to reduce vulnerability and increase the adaptive capacity is crucial. [...]

Talk- Knowledge management in environmental issues: What do we do with what we know? The main challenge in solving environmental problems is knowledge management, not the absence of knowledge. From formal and informal settings, the information that is generated needs to be disseminated for the whole society, to be shared, discussed and into new knowledge. [...]

Stockholm Resilience Center expert facilitates workshop for basin commissions at SARAS A workshop on Instruments for Water Co-management: network methodology tools was conducted by researchers María Mancilla García (Stockholm Resilience Center) and Cristina Zurbriggen (University of the Republic of Uruguay) on May 11 & 12, 2017 at SARAS Institute. The target audience were [...]

Official Swedish delegation meets in SARAS to expand lines of academic cooperation On Tuesday, May 2, the SARAS Institute had the honour of receiving the visit of the Swedish Minister for Public Administration, Ardalan Shekarabi, together with an official delegation. The main reason for the meeting was to explore lines of cooperation between Sweden [...]

Compilation summarizes 16 climate change research projects in Latin America The implementation of initiatives to address climate change issues is often undermined by the lack of sound scientific information that supports them. Between 2011 and 2015, the Climate and Development Alliance (CDKN) provided funding for 16 research projects on climate change and climate compatible [...]

Anthology of Environmental Poetry of SARAS with Significant Acceptance in the United States In March, 2015, SARAS Board Member and current SARAS co-director Professor Laurie Beth Clark asked American writer, poet and translator, current board member of SARAS Jesse Lee Kercheval about involving poets in the next SARAS conference. Kercheval proposed editing a [...]

SARAS Director, Dr. Marten Scheffer, receives award in Ecology and Conservation Biology Dr. Marten Scheffer has been distinguished by The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category, for contributing decisively to what the jury describes as "one of the major challenges" of this scientific discipline: to understand and, [...]

State of the Art Climate Change and Decision Making in Latin America Decision Making and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, a book recently published by the Regional Office of Science of UNESCO in Latin America, brings together a collection of studies from the Regional [...]