Stockholm Resilience Center expert facilitates workshop for basin commissions at SARAS A workshop on Instruments for Water Co-management: network methodology tools was conducted by researchers María Mancilla García (Stockholm Resilience Center) and Cristina Zurbriggen (University of the Republic of Uruguay) on May 11 & 12, 2017 at SARAS Institute. The target audience were [...]

Official Swedish delegation meets in SARAS to expand lines of academic cooperation On Tuesday, May 2, the SARAS Institute had the honour of receiving the visit of the Swedish Minister for Public Administration, Ardalan Shekarabi, together with an official delegation. The main reason for the meeting was to explore lines of cooperation between Sweden [...]

Compilation summarizes 16 climate change research projects in Latin America The implementation of initiatives to address climate change issues is often undermined by the lack of sound scientific information that supports them. Between 2011 and 2015, the Climate and Development Alliance (CDKN) provided funding for 16 research projects on climate change and climate compatible [...]

Anthology of Environmental Poetry of SARAS with Significant Acceptance in the United States In March, 2015, SARAS Board Member and current SARAS co-director Professor Laurie Beth Clark asked American writer, poet and translator, current board member of SARAS Jesse Lee Kercheval about involving poets in the next SARAS conference. Kercheval proposed editing a [...]

SARAS Director, Dr. Marten Scheffer, receives award in Ecology and Conservation Biology Dr. Marten Scheffer has been distinguished by The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category, for contributing decisively to what the jury describes as "one of the major challenges" of this scientific discipline: to understand and, [...]

State of the Art Climate Change and Decision Making in Latin America Decision Making and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, a book recently published by the Regional Office of Science of UNESCO in Latin America, brings together a collection of studies from the Regional [...]

Nestor Mazzeo was Awarded the Luz y Verdad Award Nestor Mazzeo, Director of Science of the SARAS Institute received the Luz y Verdad Award from the B'nai B'rith Foundation of Uruguay. The distinction was granted in recognition of his contribution to the field of ecology. On behalf of the SARAS Institute, we congratulate Nestor Mazzeo [...]

Prize for Sustainability and Resilience in the Framework of the 13th National Science Club Fair Since 2012, the SARAS Institute has participated in the National Science Club Fair organized by the Department of Scientific Culture of the Ministry of Education, a non-formal education institute, in which children, young people, and adults can project their ideas [...]

Interdisciplinary Congress in Montevideo The 1st Latin American Congress on Research and Interdisciplinary Higher Education took place in Montevideo, Uruguay on September 2016. Members of the SARAS Institute spoke about the Management of Water Resources in Uruguay, Advances, Limitations and Challenges. The presentation was based on a study that a large group of researchers carried [...]

Postgraduate Course on “Socio Ecological Systems” was offered for the first time at the SARAS Institute Headquarters. The course, “Socio-Ecological Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Management,” (offered in 2015 at the School of Sciences and the School of Engineering) was offered during the second semester of 2016 at the SARAS Institute Headquarters. The objectives of [...]