Our reflections on the International Day for Biological Diversity 2021 On May 22, a new International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated. From the SARAS Institute, we invite part of the community of associate researchers and members of the SARAS Institute to contribute a brief reflection on the date. We share with you [...]
SARAS joins the IMBeR global Project on Integrated Research of the Marine Biosphere Photo by Maite De María Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) is a global research project that focuses on the sustainability of the oceans in the context of global change, seeking to understand past, present, and future changes in [...]
New short-term Executive Director of the SARAS Institute On April 22, the Board of Directors appointed Esteban Jobbágy as Interim Executive Director of the Institute. As part of its constant evolution, SARAS begins a new cycle following the founding impulse of the outgoing director, Nestor Mazzeo, who continues his work as an associate [...]
Latin America post COVID Causes and socio-ecological consequences of the pandemic When we talk about future ways to network and travel, we are referring to the challenges of complexity. When we think about emissions and biodiversity loss, we are confronted with irreversibility. When we long to get back together and celebrate together, we [...]
"Food and Crisis", what was the 1st. virtual event March 2021 On March 23 and 24, the SARAS Institute began the cycle "Knowledge on the table: towards sustainable food systems and practices" with the first of three virtual meetings that will take place during 2021. This first meeting of two intense working days [...]
"Food and crisis: Resilience" 1st. virtual meeting 2021 cycle of virtual events on Food and Sustainability SARAS Institute invites the 1st. virtual meeting of the 2021 cycle that proposes to understand, discuss, and imagine collectively, how to navigate the complexity of our food systems to allow sustainable futures. This cycle is the product [...]
Join 24-Hour Round-the-World Conversation to Celebrate World Futures Day, Hosted by The Millennium Project Beginning March 1 in New Zealand at 12 noon NZ time (8 pm in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile) and continuing for the subsequent 24 hours, the open conversation on how to imagine and build other possible futures will move [...]
SARAS advances in the implementation of the GobHidro Project in the Santa Lucía river basin (Uruguay) Since July 2020, the SARAS Institute has been developing the GobHidro Project, a research project on hydrosocial territories and water governance in the Santa Lucía river basin (Uruguay), funded by the National Agency for Research and Innovation [...]
The Integrated Management of Water Resources in Uruguay as a focus is another of the projects developed by SARAS during 2020 In the first half of 2020, GWP (Global Water Partnership) made an open call to finance research projects that had water management as their focus of study. From the SARAS Institute, an [...]
Process of construction of the integrated management of water resources in Uruguay: status of situation and controversies MAIN OBJECTIVE Analyze the main advances, limitations, and challenges in the transition from management focused on command-control to integrated management of water resources in Uruguay from 2004 to the present. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: [...]
