The South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS) is an interdisciplinary research institute aimed at contributing substantially to the production of knowledge and capacity building in processes and mechanisms that determine the sustainability of ecosystem services, key to determining human well-being.
SARAS was designed to generate critical insights allowing South America to build sustainable futures. It seeks integration across a broad range of innovative approaches, combining disciplinary domains (social, natural and exact sciences), different sources of knowledge, and art-science interactions.
CONFERENCES
SARAS organizes a series of annual symposia with prominent scientists, artists, and scholars on resilience and sustainability issues, including natural science, social science, and humanities. The symposia include discussion workshops and a series of public lectures. The symposia also aim at creating networks that will endure over time. Until 2022, the symposia were:
Thematic cycle: "Reclaiming Sustainability through HumanitiesScience Pathways"
Thematic cycle: "Reclaiming Sustainability through HumanitiesScience Pathways" IX SARAS Public Conference 2019-2021 General description Since 2019, the SARAS Institute has been working on a thematic cycle focused on food and sustainability. After organizing a workshop in December 2019 entitled "Tasting sustainability in Uruguay: towards food systems that work for people and the planet" Topics Through three thematic axes of work: Fisheries, Agro-export, and Agroecology, various areas [...]
NEWS UPDATES
International Day for Biological Diversity 2021
Our reflections on the International Day for Biological Diversity 2021 On May 22, a new International Day [...]
SARAS joins the IMBeR global Project on Integrated Research of the Marine Biosphere
SARAS joins the IMBeR global Project on Integrated Research of the Marine Biosphere Photo by Maite De María [...]
New short-term Executive Director of the SARAS Institute
New short-term Executive Director of the SARAS Institute On April 22, the Board of Directors appointed Esteban [...]
KEY CONCEPTS
Social-ecological systems
Social-ecological systems These are complex adaptive systems, in which human societies are embedded in nature. [...]
Adaptive capacity
Adaptive capacity Refers to the capacity of a system to modify its response or functioning (operation [...]
Adaptive governance
Adaptive governance It is the institutional, political and social arrangement which allows the implementation [...]
Adaptive Management
Adaptive Management It is a process of experimentation, learning and continuous improvement, which incorporates [...]
INTERESTING SITES
Resilience Alliance (EEUU)
Wageningen UR
Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (Sweden)
Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden)
ASSOCIATES
SARAS Institute is a joint initiative of Wageningen University (Netherlands), University of the Republic – UdelaR (Uruguay), Resilience Alliance, Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay) and Municipality of Maldonado (Uruguay).
SARAS maintains permanent links with:
- Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (Sweden)
- Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden)
- Wageningen University (Netherlands)
- University of Wisconsin (USA)
- University of Arizona (USA)
- University of Waterloo (Canada)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)
- University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- National Patagonian Centre (Argentina)
- National University of San Luis (Argentina)
- Earth System Governance – University of Brasilia (Brazil)
- Eastern Region University Centre – CURE
- School of Sciences and Interdisciplinary Space; these last three institutions are based in Uruguay and belong to UdelaR.
SARAS counts on the institutional and financial support of the Uruguayan State.It is a regional centre and draws on a strong cooperation with the scientific community of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, among others. It has also established close links with cooperation and funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Ibero-American Programme for Science, Technology and Development (CYTED), the Pew Research Center, and the Interdisciplinary Space (UdelaR).
