LA AGENDA CIENTIFICA DEL IAI

The IAI Scientific Agenda, adopted in June 2021, establishes a framework for research on Global Environmental Change (GEC) in the Americas. It focuses on transdisciplinary science to support regional sustainability, aligning research with strategic areas such as poverty reduction, food and water security, and climate adaptation.

• The primary objective of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is to advance research beyond national programs by conducting comparative studies on Global Environmental Change (GEC), defined as the interactions of biological, chemical, physical, and social processes regulating the Earth system and their relationship with human activities.
• The IAI operates under several foundational principles to guide its research, including transdisciplinary science, inclusive and participatory design, open data/science, and the strengthening of the science-policy interface.
• Research supported by the IAI must align with specific strategic areas aimed at regional sustainability, which include reducing poverty and inequality, improving food, water, and energy security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, enhancing human health and wellbeing, conserving biodiversity and ecosystems, and ensuring clean air, water, and land.
• The Scientific Agenda is organized into four interrelated research themes: human dimensions of GEC; climate change and climate variability; ecosystems, biodiversity, land use/cover, and water resources; and GEC modulations in the atmosphere, oceans, and fresh waters.
• The 'Human Dimensions of GEC' theme encompasses a wide range of socio-economic and governance issues, including participatory decision-making, indigenous and local knowledge, gender perspectives, the link between GEC and emerging epidemics, and the impact of global change on fisheries and food systems.
• Research on climate change and variability focuses on low-frequency variability (such as ENSO, MJO, and TAV), the predictability of extreme weather events (heatwaves, tropical storms, droughts), and the development of an American component for a Global Climate Observing System.
• The agenda prioritizes the study of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, including the impacts of acidification and desalination on marine biodiversity, the role of indigenous knowledge in sustaining nature's benefits, and the use of the 'Nature’s future framework' for modeling.
• The theme regarding GEC modulations focuses on atmospheric and aquatic pollution, the impact of mega-cities on regional climates, the carbon cycle, and the governance of coastal and marine areas under extreme change scenarios.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2021). LA AGENDA CIENTIFICA DEL IAI. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI%20Scientific%20Agenda_FINAL%20SP2021.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. LA AGENDA CIENTIFICA DEL IAI. 2021. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI%20Scientific%20Agenda_FINAL%20SP2021.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2021agenda, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{LA AGENDA CIENTIFICA DEL IAI}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI%20Scientific%20Agenda_FINAL%20SP2021.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }