Project briefs and notes
Small Grants Program: The role of ecosystem services in adaptation to global change for human wellbeing (SGP-HW)
Strengthening Adaptation for Amazon Wildfires (SGP-HW016)
Adapting for Sustainability in Small-Scale Fisheries and Ecosystem in Latin America(SGP-HW 017)
Learning from Water Crises: Adaptive and Anticipatory Water Governance Needed in South America (SGP-HW 056)
New Insights into Governance Modalities in Response to Biodiversity Loss (SGP- HW 072)
A Pathway to Understand Socio-Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Capacity (SGP-HW 090)
Floodplain of the Parana River Basin: Livelihood and Biodiversity Restoration (SGP-HW 091)
CRN3
Nitrogen management policies urgently needed (CRN 3005)
The importance of studying tropical dry forests (CRN 3025)
From climate knowledge to action (CRN 3035)
Environmental conditions affect human health in the Amazon forest (CRN 3036)
The state of American lakes and lagoons (CRN 3038)
Arid America: a challenge to guarantee water for society and environment (CRN 3056)
The secrets of the ocean (CRN 3070)
Impact of huge highways in the jungle (CRN 3076)
The silent benefits of the oceans: the value of phytoplankton (CRN 3094)
Production and/or conservation? (CRN 3095)
Lack of preparedness prevents effective public-sector drought response (CRN 3107)
Knowing the citizen to understand urban vulnerability (CRN 3108)
CRN2
Population impact from tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific basin
Today, as one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean approaches Puerto Rico...
Harvey and what science can anticipate to reduce vulnerability to extreme events
Tropical Storm Harvey strengthened into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico last week...
The evolution of interdisciplinarity over 20 years of global change research by the IAI
Global change is pervasive, cutting across human and natural systems...
Tree rings point to drought as trigger of social conflict
Tree-ring widths of Polylepis tarapacana vary consistently with yearly rainfall on the Bolivian Altiplano.
Pacific sea surface temperatures affect Andean snowpack and water supply to the semi-arid central Chile and Argentina
Pacific sea surface temperatures affect Andean snowpack and water supply to the semi-arid central Chile and Argentina
Warmer future, stronger hurricanes?
Caribbean hurricane history shows that medieval cyclone peaks rivaled current ones
Food from the deep
The Patagonia upwelling: ocean currents determine biological productivity
Hurricanes and coastal zone vulnerability in Central America and the Caribbean
The month of November has been hit with news about Hurricane Tomas, which poured torrential rains over
Melting the Ice – Receding glaciers in the American Cordillera
Investigators from IAI projects share key messages on their research on glaciers in the American Cordillera...
Balancing CO2 in South America – IAI research backs regional approaches to climate change
IAI research backs regional approaches to climate change After Copenhagen...
Sustainability strategies and sustainability research in Latin America
THE HERE-AND-NOW OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTING TO CHANGING SEASONALITY
Strengthening adaptation capacities of coffee growers in Mesoamerica under global change
Hay aproximadamente 300,000 productores de café en Centroamérica y otros 280,000 en México, los cuales en su gran mayoría son...
How to improve the dialogue between science and society. The case of global environmental change
The challenge of global environmental change
Biofuels, soil carbon balance and sustainability
The following is a brief summary of some critical issues in agricultural biofuel production...
Groundwater use in agriculture risks aquifer over-exploitation
Managing water at the local level in Mexico to buffer against global change
Dissemination brochure: Value and use of the ecosystems of Western Córdoba – Argentina
The objective of this dissemination booklet is to communicate, in a non-scientific language...
Seed Grant Program associated with Training Institutes and Professional Seminars
Institutional capacities of response to extreme rainfall events in small coastal tourism and artisanal fishing economies in Latin America
PDF in English