Project Profile: FuturAgua
Enhancing Adaptation and Resilience to Drought in Dry Tropical Social-Ecological Systems: The Guanacaste, Costa Rica Example
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Tim McDaniels, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Partners: | Raffaele Vignola, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Costa Rica Grégoire Leclerc, Agriculture Research and Development, France Douw Steyn, University of British Columbia, Canada Mitchell Small, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Mark Johnson, University of British Columbia, Canada Kai Chan, University of British Columbia, Canada Hadi Dowlatabadi, Research Council of Norway, Norway Iris Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Carnegie Mellon University, United States |
| Sponsors: | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada French National Research Agency, France National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Enhancing Adaptation and Resilience to Drought in Dry Tropical Social-Ecological Systems: The Guanacaste, Costa Rica Example |
| Full Call Title: | Freshwater2012 |
| Website: | http://futuragua.ca/ubc/home/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | The proposed project seeks to provide a fuller characterization of relevant social-ecological system (SES) dynamics, including effects of external drivers and multiple scales of governance. It will create a deeper understanding of the biophysical and social processes affecting these systems, of the benefits affected by these processes, and how these processes are addressed in regulatory and water allocation. It will produce a more appropriate representation of the complexity and uncertainty within SES in conceptual and methodological terms, which will contribute to improved decision processes that generate better alternatives and greater insight for decision-making at multiple scales. |
| Call Objective: | This call was created to address the following: - Identification and characterization of the interactions between natural processes and human practices that govern water budgeting in selected regions; - Development of approaches that support the evolution of resilient communities/regions through improved seasonal forecasting of droughts, taking into account natural and socio-economic drivers. |
Where?
| Regions: | North America |
| Countries: | Costa Rica |
When?
| Duration: | 36 Months |
| Call Date: | |
| Project Award Date: | 2012 |
