SARAS developed a meeting amongst International experts in Biodiversity and Protected Areas of the Neotropics From the 25 to the 27 of September SARAS2 Institute hosted a meeting of the Project “Spatial Planning for Protected areas in Response to Climate change” (SPARC). Pablo Marquet (from the renowned Catholic University of Chile) organized [...]

Environmental sustainability in Uruguay: contributions from resilience thinking (Article in Spanish) Article recently published in its shorter version in the journal "Revista R - Mayo Sustentable", Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Se sugiere citar este documento de la siguiente manera: Mazzeo N., Zurbriggen C., Trimble M., Bianchi [...]

SARAS presented several papers at the 2017 Resilience Conference in Stockholm. Since 2008 and every three years, the Stockholm Resilience Center (Sweden) together with the Resilience Alliance (USA) hold the Resilience conference, which is attended by the most influential academics in resilience and sustainability. The Resilience 2017 conference was held on August [...]

Livestreaming I Seminar and Public Debate on Emerging territories in the Eastern Region of Uruguay The 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region will include over fifty presentations, national and international experts, and will seek to contribute to the decision-making processes on the territory in the [...]

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I Seminar and Public Debate on Emerging territories in the Eastern Region of Uruguay The 1st Colloquium-Public Debate on the construction of the Territory in the Eastern Region will include over fifty presentations, national and international experts, and will seek to contribute to the decision-making processes on the territory in the region. From [...]

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. [...]