Artigo publicado este ano na revista Environmental Development, escrito por Marcelo Saguier, Andrea K. Gerlak, Pilar Carolina Villar, Claudio Baigún, Virginia Venturini, Albina Lara e Marco Aurelio dos Santos, trata da pressão que vem ocorrendo na bacia do rio Uruguai, que se estende pela Argentina, Brasil e Uruguai, em decorrência da expansão da agricultura e silvicultura industriais e projetos de infraestrutura em hidroenergia e transporte.
Segundo os autores, há um crescente entendimento de que a estrutura institucional fragmentada é inadequada para dar conta dos crescentes desafios da região.
“Redes de pesquisa interdisciplinar podem contribuir para criar perspectivas relevantes do ponto de vista das políticas e da governança”, diz o resumo da publicação.
Leia o resumo em inglês abaixo e acesse a publicação completa aqui.
Abstract
The Uruguay River Basin (URB) that extends along Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay has been the hub of increasing pressures caused by the expansion of industrial agriculture, forestry and infrastructure projects in hydroenergy and transportation. There are growing concerns that the fragmented institutional framework is inadequate to address the growing challenges. Interdisciplinary research networks can contribute to creating perspectives of the basin that are policy and governance relevant. In this paper, we set out to interrogate the potential scope of interdisciplinary research networks (IRNs) for the advancement of basin governance framework for the URB. We envision IRNs as knowledge actors that can open up opportunities to mediate and connect basin actors across different spaces – academic, policy, technical administrative and social. We highlight a series of pathways to advance networks actions in creating opportunities to fill the gaps of transboundary basin governance, and acknowledge the challenges associated with doing this work in the URB and other basins around the world.
Keywords: Interdisciplinarity research networks; Social-ecological systems; Transboundary rivers; South America.
