Webinar: “What Rhymes with Resilience? Acclimating the Humanities” Date: Tuesday, May 8 2018. Time: 2pm (GMT-3). Delivered online. Requires enrolment Contextualization The Environmental Humanities have emerged from an increasing consensus coming from the natural, social, artistic and humanistic sciences stating that the usual economic and scientific arguments fall short [...]
Social-ecological Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Management (2018 edition) Objetives Cover key aspects of the structure and dynamics of social-ecological systems Analyze critical aspects that ensure the sustainability of ecosystem services, essential for life on this planet and quality of life for humans. Understand the main management paradigms [...]
Postgraduate Course on Socio-cological Systems Structure, Dynamics and Management Objectives Cover key aspects of the structure and dynamics of socio-ecological systems. Analyze key aspects that ensure sustainability of ecosystem services essential for life on this planet and quality of life for humans. Understand the main paradigms of management, [...]
Course Collaborative territorial planning and ecosystem services. Second half of 2017. Ecosystem Services, Resolution of Territorial Disputes, Multiactoral Negotiation, Legislation in Land Use Planning, and Environmental Justice Objectives Promote the integration of new issues and concepts in the actors of the management of Territorial Planning in Uruguay. [...]
Recovery of eutrophic systems: resilience mechanisms and rehabilitation strategies The recovery of aquatic systems impacted in the past and/or present by nutrients from the drainage basin, requires multiple strategies for controlling the causes and managing consequences. The process of rehabilitation involves overcoming diverse resilience mechanisms of physical, chemicals and biological nature. [...]
Conference Model for the Development and Exploitation of Natural Resources: Conflicts and Contradictions, David Harvey in CURE, Maldonado David Harvey is a British geographer and anthropologist, is Professor of Anthropology and Geography at City University of New York and Miliband Fellow of the London School of Economics. Harvey is one of [...]
Monitoring and Assessment to Support Freshwater Management Postgraduate Course 14th to 18th September, 2015. Facultad de Ciencias Organiser Institutions: SARAS Institute and Centro Universitario de la Región Este, Universidad de la República This course is designed to provide an overview for understanding water quality monitoring and assessment in freshwater ecosystems. [...]
Intensive course on Climate Politics and Global Energy Intensive, one-week postgraduate-level course by Prof. Eduardo Viola. September 10 to 14, 2018 SARAS Institute (Bella Vista) Course contents This course will cover seven main issues: 1- The recent dynamics of the international system: crises of democracies, rise of authoritarianism, rise [...]
