Transition Lab (SARAS T-Lab) DESCRIPTION The Transition Lab (T-LAB) is a space for creative and experimental innovation to promote transitions and plural trajectories of complex socio-ecological systems in Latin America. Through active work with communities and their actors, seen as co-researchers, our approach is to explore and generate different narratives [...]

UNESCO CHAIR ON SOCIOCULTURAL ANTICIPATION AND RESILIENCE AIM The UNESCO Chair on Sociocultural Anticipation and Resilience seeks to develop and strengthen anticipatory skills and competences through action-research and learning-through-practice methodologies, that are aimed at enhancing learning and information in decision-making to facilitate change processes from a futures perspective. THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH Our [...]

EARLY WARNING SIGNALS OBJECTIVE The network aims to develop methods and approaches to identify early signals of change that will herald the advent of sudden changes or critical transitions. ABSTRACT Complex systems are characterized by non-linear change dynamics and in many cases by sharp transitions with thresholds that can be known [...]

CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL MARINE INVERTEBRATE FISHERIES IN LATIN AMERICA OBJECTIVE The aim of the network is to document and disseminate new tools for conservation, management and governance of artisanal fisheries in Latin America, with special emphasis on coastal invertebrate fisheries. The network is focused on developing a set of [...]

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF LAGUNA DEL SAUCE AND ITS ASSOCIATED BASIN OBJECTIVE The aim of the network is the development and promotion of adaptive strategies to ensure the sustainability of critical ecosystem services for human well-being. ABSTRACT Laguna del Sauce is the main drinking water reservoir of the Department [...]

CURRENT AND FUTURE CLIMATE VARIABILITY IMPORTANT TO URUGUAYAN PRODUCTIVE SECTORS OBJECTIVE The aim of the network is to analyze the current and future scenarios of climate variability important to different agricultural sectors of Uruguay. ABSTRACT Central to the work is the development of indicators and early warning signals [...]

Art-Science Interaction OBJECTIVE Knowledge integration with particular emphasis on the amalgamation of science, arts and humanities to analyse and solve complex issues. ABSTRACT From its beginnings, SARAS Institute has worked towards enhancing the integration between different knowledge and disciplinary fields. The reconcilement between the sciences, the arts and the [...]

Socio-ecological Co-creation Network for Latin America (RESACA) OBJECTIVES We are oriented to explore and develop co-creation methodologies from the transdisciplinary dialogue between art, science, politics, and society to respond to regional Socio-ecological challenges. In turn, collaborate in the generation of a theory that promotes the horizontality of knowledge from the [...]