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2. Educating for variability and climate change in Uruguay, a case study.
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Guevara Dorado, Rocío
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YOUNG adults ,CLIMATE change education ,NONFORMAL education ,EDUCATIONAL resources ,CLIMATE change ,SUSTAINABLE construction - Abstract
Among the possible actions to face climate change, education has a central role, great hopes have been deposited in its potential to contribute to the construction of a sustainable world. However, although there are global climate change education initiatives, they still do not generate a significant impact, especially at the local level. The deepening of the location of educational actions is key to reaching the public. It is necessary to permeate the national educational systems and non-formal education generated by local civil society. For this reason, it is important to learn about successful local initiatives that can enrich and strengthen future practices at all levels. In Uruguay, initiatives have been developed that can serve as case studies that contribute to collecting lessons learned and areas of opportunity. This paper includes three experiences developed by multidisciplinary teams from the Centre for Response to Variability and Climate Change of the University of the Republic in conjunction with key local government actors and local civil society. It is about the process of elaboration and implementation of an audio-visual educational resource for adolescents, a cycle of workshops for young people and a multimodal online course for professional adults and teachers. The experiences demonstrate the relevance of generating locally contextualized educational resources and actions to contribute to the achievement of global objectives of sustainable development. Likewise, they present some lessons learned in terms of theoretical approaches, methods and practices of education for climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Cambios de uso del suelo e inundaciones en espacios urbanos en Uruguay: tres casos de estudio.
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Schön, Feline and Achkar, Marcel
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RAINFALL ,GEOGRAPHIC information systems ,LAND use ,CITIES & towns ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
Copyright of Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografía is the property of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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4. Current perceptions on climate change in Uruguay: Actors and visions with focus on the Northeast region.
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Margarita Stuhldreher, Amalia
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CLIMATE change ,GOVERNMENT policy on climate change ,SUSTAINABLE development ,PARTICIPATION ,ORBITS (Astronomy) ,ACRONYMS - Abstract
Copyright of Redes (1414-7106) is the property of Associacao Pro-Ensino em Santa Cruz do Sul - APESC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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5. Inundación y cambio climático: multicausalidad en la ciudad de Santa Lucía, Uruguay entre 1990-2021.
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Eluén, Lucía, Achkar, Marcel, and Schön, Feline
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CLIMATE change ,SPATIAL behavior ,SPRING ,AUTUMN ,REMOTE sensing - Abstract
Copyright of Investigaciones Geograficas is the property of Universidad de Alicante, Instituto Universitario de Geografia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
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6. Introduction to the special issue: Implementing environmental criminology for crime prevention.
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Ceccato, Vania
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CRIME prevention ,ENVIRONMENTAL crimes ,SUSTAINABLE development ,CLIMATE change ,CRIMINOLOGY - Abstract
This introduction aims to showcase the articles of the special issue and highlights the expansive field of environmental criminology, underscoring its role in understanding and preventing crime through situational and environmental strategies. This collection of articles covers a wide array of research from the USA, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and Uruguay, demonstrating the global application of environmental criminology principles. Contributions from various disciplines illustrate the field's multidisciplinary approach to tackling crime, particularly in the face of challenges posed by climate change and the need for social and economic sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Managing the forest-water nexus for climate change adaptation.
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Zhang, Mingfang, Liu, Shirong, Jones, Julia, Sun, Ge, Wei, Xiaohua, Ellison, David, Archer, Emma, McNulty, Steve, Asbjornsen, Heidi, Zhang, Zhiqiang, Serengil, Yusuf, Zhang, Meinan, Yu, Zhen, Li, Qiang, Luan, Junwei, Yurtseven, Ibrahim, Hou, Yiping, Deng, Shiyu, and Liu, Zipei
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CLIMATE change ,DROUGHTS ,WATERSHED management ,FOREST resilience ,WATERSHED hydrology ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,ADAPTIVE natural resource management - Abstract
• Climate change can yield both direct and indirect effects on forest hydrology. • The impacts of climate change on the forest-water nexus are complex among watersheds. • The interactions among forest, water, and climate change introduce more complexities. Climate change can directly affect forest hydrology by altering precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow generation, or indirectly by changing disturbance regimes and forest structures at multiple scales. Climate change impacts on the forest-water nexus across biomes are pervasive characterized by a great complexity and uncertainty, significantly impeding the design of adaptive forest watershed management to mitigate climate change risks. This paper reviews our current knowledge on the interactions between climate change and the forest-water nexus at the scales of individual tree, stand, and watershed. We found that climate change dramatically altered watershed hydrology in many parts of the world, with varying hydrological responses at multiple scales of tree species, forest types, climate types, and hydrological regimes. The streamflow response was often more pronounced in snow-dominated or water-limited watersheds, especially in watersheds with increasing droughts due to climate change and intensively managed plantations of either non-native tree species (e.g., Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Australia) or young coniferous species. Climate change impacts can be compounded or offset by forest changes (i.e., deforestation, and forestation) through forest-climate interactions and feedbacks. Forest management can mitigate or aggravate the negative hydrologic impacts of climate change. Adaptive forest management is a prerequisite for managing the forest-water nexus in the face of climate change. Various forest management strategies aiming at maintaining optimal forest structure and high species diversity are recommended to enhance forest resistance and resilience to climate change and sustain water provision services from forests and other beneficial ecosystem services while minimizing negative impacts and risks of climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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8. Comprehensive wave climate analysis of the Uruguayan coast.
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Alonso, Rodrigo and Solari, Sebastián
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WAVE analysis ,COASTS ,FLUX (Energy) ,WAVE energy ,CLIMATE change ,ESTUARIES - Abstract
A detailed analysis of how the wave climate gradually varies from the Atlantic coast to the Rio de la Plata (RDP) estuary coast of Uruguay is undertaken, exploiting a recently developed high-resolution wave hindcast. As a better knowledge and understanding of the wave climate along the coast is a valuable tool for coastal scientist and managers for analyzing and interpreting its dynamics, a comprehensive approach is taken in this work, exploring not only the behavior of integral wave parameters but also average wave spectra and wave systems obtained from spectra partitioning. Moreover, as the focus is made on coastal areas, the magnitude and direction of the wave energy flux are analyzed as well. It is found that the analysis of the wave climate sustains the division of the Uruguayan coast in three main regions, namely, Atlantic, Outer RDP, and Intermediate and Inner RDP. In the Atlantic coast, two swell systems and a wind sea system are identified, and spatial changes in the wave climate are driven mainly by changes on coastal orientation, where La Paloma was identified as a breaking point; in the RDP, swell systems strongly refracts and dissipates, resulting in a wave climate characterized by one to none swell systems and a wind sea system, with bathymetry and geometry of the estuary playing a major role in the spatial changes of the wave climate. The analysis allowed not only to identify several characteristics of each of the regions but also to better understand how different wave systems (sea and swells) explain these characteristics in the different regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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