TY - JOUR
T1 - Interdisciplinary research networks and science-policy-society interactions in the Uruguay River Basin
AU - Saguier, Marcelo
AU - Gerlak, Andrea K.
AU - Villar, Pilar Carolina
AU - Baigún, Claudio
AU - Venturini, Virginia
AU - Lara, Albina
AU - dos Santos, Marco Aurelio
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebted to the constructive and inspirational contributions to early versions of this paper shared by Victor Pochat, Alcides Farias and Rubén Quintana, Nazaret Castro and other members of the Transdisciplinary Research Network for the La Plata River Basin. In addition, we would like to thank Silvia Rafaelli from CIC Plata for her support and encouragement. This paper is an output of a research project financed by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Interdisciplinarity research networks
KW - Social-ecological systems
KW - South America
KW - Transboundary rivers
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100601
DO - 10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100601
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097753751
VL - 38
JO - Environmental Development
JF - Environmental Development
SN - 2211-4645
M1 - 100601
ER -