Córdoba, 15 feb (EFEAGRO)-A project led by the University of Córdoba (UCO) aims to provide local solutions to environmental and climatic challenges in Latin America, combining scientific knowledge and local communities of Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.
The Director of the Secretariat for the training of researchers of the UCO, Mary of the sea Delgado, today unveiled at press conference in Cordoba the project, called “Comet – the”, an initiative in network with a budget of EUR 2 million and involving also seven – four European and three American – research institutions, three NGOs Colombia, Mexico and Argentina, and the Spanish Committee of IUCN.
According to Delgado explained, the research will last three years and aims to analyse social and human climate change from a local scale, that so far have not been as thorough study.
How society can address these issues and how can manage will be some of the most relevant questions to try and resolve the researchers, he has detailed.
The Colombia project will address the problem of water management and biodiversity in this country, deepening in the capacity of access to natural resources or the overexploitation of these.
Furthermore, the initiative of Mexico will take place in a State in the South of the country and delve deeply into sustainable management of forests and land use models.
As the representative of the Civil Association of rural studies and consultancy farmer of Mexico, Yolanda Lara, the concrete place of study will be an area that has been 20 years making a sustainable use of the forest and from hence want to demonstrate “how organized society can contribute much with local actions to tackle climate change”.
Finally, in Argentina will work on improving coastal management and marine, especially in the estuary of BahÃa Blanca.
. The representative of the National Council of scientific research and Argentina techniques, Gerardo Perillo, has reported that the project covers “a wide range of criteria” and takes place in an area of “potential harm by port and urban planning, developments” affecting the fishing craft and sports.
The idea, as it has been detailed, is to develop an integrated programme of coastal management with the active participation of users so they show their vision of the problem and consider solutions. EFEAGRO
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