PROJECTS

Co-investigando oportunidades de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector pesquero artesanal de Uruguay

Generar un espacio de co-creación y de aprendizaje transdisciplinario enfocado en explorar oportunidades y estrategias de adaptación, en base a las experiencias de pescadores/as y de los demás actores participantes.

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Platform for the construction of tools and capacities for the design of sustainable productive transitions in Uruguay

Sustainable productive transitions in rural areas can simultaneously improve environmental, economic and social dimensions, and also create new markets and export opportunities for Uruguay. However, for the design of sustainable productive transitions, the country needs to advance in the development of tools and capacities.

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Fishing Transformations

Small-scale fisheries are part of a food system that connects fishers, gastronomes, and consumers through the flavors and the pieces of knowledge of the seas, lagoons, and rivers. However, in Uruguay, small-scale fisheries face a paradox:…

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Bridging the Water Adaptation Gap: a Comparative Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspective of Regional Risks and Vulnerabilities in Drylands in Canada and Latin America.

The objective of this project is to address the existing climate adaptation gap at the regional level to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities of people and ecosystems to climate change, with a particular emphasis on water security, in order to support the design of national and international climate adaptation policies…

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Virtual Watersheds
Bases for the design of a national water resources monitoring system

Virtual basins or artificial landscapes are artificial systems that integrate a very diverse set of information on the territory thanks to advances in the field of geographic information systems (GIS) …

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Process of construction of the integrated management of water resources in Uruguay: status of situation and controversies

Analyze the main advances, limitations, and challenges in the transition from management focused on command-control to integrated management of water resources in Uruguay from 2004 to the present.

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GobHidro
Hydrosocial territories and polycentric governance: contributions for improving water quality in Santa Lucia river basin

Investigate water management and governance in the Santa Lucía River Basin (Uruguay), with a focus on the development and implementation of two main management instruments: the Basin Plan for integrated water resources management (as established in the National Water Plan) and the Action Plan for the protection of the environmental quality of the basin (and its second generation in 2019).

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GovernAgua: “Transforming water governance in South America: from reaction to adaptation and anticipation”.

The aim of GovernAgua project is to contribute to the provision of ecosystem services and human wellbeing associated with water, through an improvement in anticipatory water governance in South America. This will be accomplished by strengthening the adaptation, anticipation and knowledge co-creation capacities.

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LatinoAdapta: Scientific advice to Climate Change decision makers and negotiators from Latin American countries

Strengthen the capacity of Latin American national governments for evidence based climate responsive policies and decision making.

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Analysis of vulnerability, resilience and climate change adaptation of Uruguay’s productive sectors

The objective is to buill a system to assess the vulnerability (exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) and the climate resilience of different agro-ecosystems.

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Legacy in research and teaching in LAC

The objective of this project is that Universities and Research institutes in LAC are aware of the legacy of the work that CDKN has supported over the years and can be a basis for fostering more research and training in Climate Compatible Development.

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National Forest Monitoring and Information System for a transparent and truthful REDD+

The Services will contribute to the following Organizational objective: To contribute to build the autonomous capacity of the country to monitor its forest-related REDD-plus activities ( deforestation, forest degradation, forest carbon stockconservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks).

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CARE Empowering Climate Resilience

The objective of this project is that Universities and Research institutes in LAC are aware of the legacy of the work that CDKN has supported over the years and can be a basis for fostering more research and training in Climate Compatible Development.

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