A5064844321- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Water resources management and optimization
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate variability and models
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Mining and Resource Management
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Land Use and Management
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
University of Chile
2020-2024
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2016-2018
Centre For Sustainable Urban Development
2018
University of Arizona
2014-2016
Chile is positioned in the 20th rank of water availability per capita. Nonetheless, security levels vary across territory. Around 70% national population lives arid and semiarid regions, where a persistent drought has been experienced over last decade. This led to problems including shortages. The allocation trading system based on use rights (WURs) market, with limited regulatory supervisory mechanisms, volume be granted as permanent eventual WURs calculated from statistical analyses...
Addressing wicked problems challenging water security requires participation from multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting visions, complicating the attainment of water-security goals and heightening need for integrative effective science-policy interfaces. Sustained multi-stakeholder dialogues within networks can improve adaptive governance system resilience. This paper describes what we define as "dialogic networks," or interactions -- both in structural procedural terms between...
A governmental watershed collaborative process in Aculeo, a semi‐endorheic 149 km 2 sub‐basin Chile, debated options for the water scarcity problems they were facing, including their lake desiccation. However, instead of joining forces, discussions around possibility recovering generated further conflicts, revealing that it was not goal shared by all. In this article, we explore different perceptions and reasons influenced preferences on restoring or rehabilitating Aculeo Lake. By...
In the face of high-impact, but uncertain, environmental changes likely to affect supply and demand water resources, societies are discussing need adapt such considerin...
The importance of collaborative approaches to governing social-ecological systems (SES) towards more transformative outcomes is now widely acknowledged. Theoretical and meth- odological frameworks enable such collaborations are being developed across a range disciplines. Transdisciplinary emerging as key enabler potentially trans- formative in SES, particularly where these characterized by 'multiple multi- ples' (e.g. multiple scales, knowledge systems, etc.). A typical approach studying...
Although the importance of monitoring and evaluation restoration actions is increasingly acknowledged, availability accurate, quantitative data very rare for most areas, particularly long‐established projects. We propose using fuzzy rule‐based expert systems to evaluate degree success when available information on project results impacts largely relies expert‐based qualitative assessments rough estimates values. These use logic manage uncertainty present in integrate information. To...
The way of life agricultural rural territories and their long-term capacity to adapt changes will be challenged not only by the impacts climate change; but increased vulnerability stemming from previous inadequate adaptations development policies. Studies that deepen understanding differential causes implications vulnerabilities improve adaptation or transformation institutions for change. Aculeo basin Central Chile suffered an extreme 10-years rainfall deficit resulted in disappearance a 12...
Stakeholder participation in environmental assessment of past land management and restoration actions drylands is important to improve knowledge these ecosystems. Participatory identification prioritization monitoring criteria, while increasingly incorporated into assessment, still perceived as challenging due conflicting values perspectives among stakeholders. As this research demonstrates, a two-step participatory (n = 33) process consisting semistructured interview followed by the revised...
Abstract. Hydrological modeling tools can support collaborative decision processes by visually displaying hydrological systems connections, uncertainties, as well conflicting preferences over water management strategies. Nevertheless, many challenges remain in the real application of these technical to successfully implement, capture, and communicate with non-experts complexities coupled human systems. A 5-step process shows how a WEAP-based study aiming explore disappearance 12 km2 lake...
Background: The Altos de Cantillana mountain range (ACMR) in central Chile is composed of different vegetation communities, and currently a priority site for conservation, due to its high endemism, anthropogenic pressure vulnerability climate change. Research on biodiversity carbon stocks ACMR essential comprehend the resilience these forests define conservation strategies. This study examines spatial variability tree biomass patterns along entire altitudinal gradient ACMR. Methods: Six...
Abstract Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) can promote different types of governance arrangements to address the triple challenge biodiversity loss, climate change and air pollution. These institutional arrangements, however, do not explicitly incorporate into ecosystem’s capacity provide services. In this study, we explore why how uncertainties using as example Altos de Cantillana Nature Reserve, a unique hotspot in Central Chile. First, prioritized ecosystem services (ES) were grouped...
Mientras las comunidades de todo el mundo reciben los impactos crecientes del cambio climático, residentes y tomadores decisiones a nivel local negocian, definen planifican estrategias adaptación. En Chile, la Ley Marco Cambio Climático 21.455 (2022) exige que municipios desarrollen planes acción climática. Ante una sequía extrema 14 años, disminución manto nieve retroceso glaciares, estudiamos acceso al agua potable para subsistencia adaptación justa climático en San José Maipo,...
<p>Ecosystem goods and services (BSE) of native forest are fundamental for water supply in Central Chile. The ongoing Megadrought (MD)- a decade lenght below normal precipitation years (~30-40%)- that affects the region, has exacerbated scarcity, generating favorable scenario systematization structuring Payment Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes Mediterranean-climate basins Hydrological modeling tools can be useful to support collaborative decision processes needed implement...