Scientists, policymakers and stakeholders plan for climate change: a promising approach in Chile's Maipo basin

Researchers and stakeholders in Chile's Maipo River basin developed a co-produced adaptation framework that links water availability and quality to human well-being and ecosystem services. This approach helps decisionmakers move beyond short-term water needs to address long-term development goals and climate uncertainties, providing a potential model for other arid and semiarid regions globally.

• A collaborative science-policy dialogue in Chile's Maipo River basin, utilizing a robust decisionmaking (RDM) approach, has resulted in a co-produced hybrid adaptation framework. This framework integrates water security, ecosystem services, and human well-being across three dimensions: water availability and requirements (quantity and quality), water-related objectives, and ultimate human well-being and ecosystem-services outcomes.
• The co-produced framework supports climate change adaptation by shifting focus from short-term water needs to underlying development and ecosystem-services goals. It is used to identify performance indicators for evaluating adaptation strategies and focuses dialogue on climate and development uncertainties, intersectoral and upstream-downstream relations, and the scale and location of adaptation implementation.
• The application of this framework in the Maipo River basin suggests that centering adaptation plans on water as a means to achieve human well-being and ecosystem outcomes can urge decisionmakers to pursue policies more urgently, even amidst political and climatic uncertainties. The authors suggest these lessons may be applicable to other global arid or semiarid regions facing hydroclimatic variability and water scarcity.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Scientists, policymakers and stakeholders plan for climate change: a promising approach in Chile's Maipo basin. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/scientists-policymakers-and-stakeholders-plan-for-climate-change-a-promising-approach-in-chiles-maipo-basin/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Scientists, policymakers and stakeholders plan for climate change: a promising approach in Chile's Maipo basin. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/scientists-policymakers-and-stakeholders-plan-for-climate-change-a-promising-approach-in-chiles-maipo-basin/.

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@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025scientists, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Scientists, policymakers and stakeholders plan for climate change: a promising approach in Chile's Maipo basin}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/scientists-policymakers-and-stakeholders-plan-for-climate-change-a-promising-approach-in-chiles-maipo-basin/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }