IAI-Workshop-PROSUR: PROSUR Thematic Workshop

This metadata makes reference to the PROSUR Thematic Workshop, which was help
in Buenos Aires, in February, 2001. The workshop has been organized to develop
a Human Dimensions component of PROSUR ('Development of a Collaborative
Research Network for the Study of Regional Climate Variability and Changes,
their Prediction and Impacts in the MERCOSUR Area', CRN 055, PI: Dr. Mario
Nunez, supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research ,
IAI) in which scientists from the MERCOSUR countries and USA are involved. Dr.
Silvina Solman and Dr. Matilde Rusticucci have integrated the organizing
committee. Dr. Claudia Natenzon has strongly collaborated during the
preparation and development. In this context, an interdisciplinary meeting has
been organized in order to contact social and natural scientists to create an
interdisciplinary framework to evaluate the socio-economical vulnerability of
climate variability in the PROSUR region. The workshop has been focused on
Human Dimensions on Floods in the Mercosur Area. The aim of this meeting was to
involve social and natural scientists and policy makers to discuss about the
issues that should be considered in the elaboration of a Human Dimension
Proposal, intended to be developed through a one year Start- up project,
supported by PROSUR. This effort would conclude in the elaboration of a
proposal to be presented to any International Agency. More than fifty
participants from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and USA, from different
disciplines: sociology, economy, geography, climatology, health, hydrology,
agronomy and from different professional profiles: institutional management,
demand-side perspectives on climate services, science administrators and
research. The list of participants and other information about the workshop can
be found at the actual document that follow this metadata.