Intensive course on urban resilience to climate change in Colombia The course, dictated from 5 to March 14 at the Mining Faculty of the National University of Colombia in Medellin, was developed within the framework of the project CARE -empowering the resilience to climate change. [...]

Hacking sustainable diets By Juan RochaWhat is a sustainable diet? It’s not a trivial question, yet it has an elusive answer. Part of the problem is that the very framing of the question is a wicked problem: it has so many angles to it that people who think of solutions often miss part [...]

SARAS organized a discussion on Environmental Humanities Last Monday December 11, the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS) organized the seventh of a series of conferences titled on this occasion "Enviromental Humanities for the 21st Century". The Conference held at the Casa de la Cultura in Maldonado, Uruguay, counted on [...]

Livestreaming Environmental Humanities for the 21st Century

Paper Inequality in nature and society The work led by Marten Scheffer, Scientific Director of SARAS Institute shows striking similarities between patterns of inequality between species abundances in nature and wealth in society. The article demonstrates that in the absence of equalizing forces, such large inequality will arise from chance alone.The paper was [...]

Channeling the analysis: uncertain and decision making (Article in Spanish) Autores: Néstor Mazzeo, Manfred Steffen, Micaela Trimble, Paula Bianchi, Cristina Zurbriggen y Hugo Inda* DOWNLOAD El debate sobre las modificaciones a la Ley de Riego (Ley Nº 16858, del 3 de setiembre de 1997, denominada Riego con destino Agrario) de los últimos [...]

Conference on Environmental Humanities will seek to promote the topic in Latin America Since 2010, the SARAS Institute has been organizing a series of public conferences where experts, opinion makers, and national and international professionals from the academia come together. This year's conference will aim to facilitate intercultural dialogues, with alternative thinking on [...]

The course on collaborative territorial planning and ecosystem services will be held again in 2018 The course were taught by the University Center of the Eastern Region (CURE-UdelaR), the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism - University of the Republic (FADU) and SARAS Institute. The course promoted the integration of new [...]

Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region "Viento del Este" (East Wind) 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region was held from September 14 to 16, 2017. The activity was organized by the Regional University Center of the East - CURE (Department [...]

Channeling the analysis: modifications to the Irrigation Law in Uruguay (Article in Spanish) Autores: Néstor Mazzeo, Manfred Steffen, Micaela Trimble, Paula Bianchi, Cristina Zurbriggen y Hugo Inda* La reciente aprobación de las modificaciones a la Ley del Riego (Ley Nº 16858, del 3 de setiembre de 1997, denominada Riego con destino Agrario) [...]