CRN2005 - PDF file
From landscape to ecosystem: across-scaLes functioning in changing environments
PI: Guillermo Sarmiento
How are ecosystem boundaries defined? How do they relate to water availability and climate; how do they shift under global change? Can we predict ecosystem displacements?... Read More

CRN2014 - PDF file
Functional links between aboveground changes and belowground activity with land use in the Americas: soil biodiversity and food security (AMFOODS)
PI: Ricardo Luis Louro Berbara
Land use and cover change (LUCC) has important impacts not only on carbon sequestration and emissions but also on soil... Read More

CRN2015 - PDF file
Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach (DIVERSUS)
PI: Sandra M. Díaz
Changing land-use patterns and practices affect the properties and biodiversity of ecosystems. This has implications for the delivery of ecosystem services... Read More

CRN2017 - PDF file
South American emissions, megacities and climate (SAEMC)
PI: Laura Gallardo Klenner
More than 80% of South Americans live in densely populated urban areas. In many of those urban areas, air quality is poor. This is a risk to citizen’s health and accelerates global change in the region. The SAEMC project... Read More

CRN2021 - PDF file
Human, ecological and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forest (TROPI-DRY)
PI: Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa
Tropical dry forests, with their high agricultural and touristic potential and ideal conditions for human settlement, are extremely vulnerable. This research network is developing ... Read More

CRN2031 - PDF file
Land use change in the Rio de la Plata Basin: linking biophysical and human factors to understand trends, assess impacts, and support viable strategies for the future
PI: Esteban Jobbágy
Food and biofuel production drive large-scale ecosystem conversion; in the La Plata basin alone it has resulted... Read More

CRN2047 - PDF file
Documenting, understanding and projecting changes in the hydrological cycle in the American Cordillera
PI: B. H. Luckman
Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in a warming and more crowded world. Better data are needed... Read More

CRN2048 - PDF file
Tropical cyclones: current characteristics and potential changes under a warmer climate
PI: Graciela Binimelis de Raga
The atmosphere-ocean system is both part of and responds to global climate change in complex ways... Read More

CRN2050 - PDF file
Paleotempestology of the caribbean region: A multi-proxy, multi-site study of the spatial and temporal variability of Caribbean hurricane activity
PI: Kam-biu Liu
The pan-Caribbean region, which includes Central America, the Caribbean islands, and the U.S. Gulf coast, is one of the most... Read More

CRN2060 - PDF file
Effective adaptation strategies and risk reduction towards economic and climatic shocks: lessons from the coffee crisis in Mesoamerica
PI: Edwin Castellanos
Climatic variability and price volatility in global markets strongly affect cash crops production... Read More

CRN2061 - PDF file
Caribbean coastal scenarios (CCs): an integrated analysis of Inland-Coastal linkages to guide sustainable use and protection of coastal ecosystems
PI: Assefa Melesse
The island nations of the Caribbean are among the countries most vulnerable to global environmental change... Read More

CRN2076 - PDF file
An international consortium for the study of oceanic related global and climate changes in South America (SACC)
PI: Alberto Piola
Oceans play a huge role in the global climate system; they sequester greenhouse gases, move heat... Read More

CRN2094 - PDF file
The impact of land cover and land use changes (LCLUC) on the hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin
PI: Ernesto Hugo Berbery
The La Plata basin is key for the economic and social development of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay... Read More

SGP-HD 003 - PDF file
Climate change and irrigated agriculture towards a better understanding of driving forces and feedbacks between decision makers and biophysical environment and their impacts on hydrological cycle and land use
PI: Francisco J. Meza
Increasing competition for water resources... Read More

SGP-HD 004 - PDF file
Coming down the mountain: understanding the vulnerability of Andean communities to hydroclimatologic variability and global environmental change
PI: David Gauthier
The capacity of institutions to respond to climate change impacts on agriculture and water resources... Read More

SGP-HD 005 - PDF file
Information flows and policy: use of climate diagnostics and cyclone prediction for adaptive water-resources management under climatic uncertainty in western North America
PI: Robert Varady
Among major climate-related risks to human populations and economic... Read More

SGP-HD 008 - PDF file
Conservation policy impacts in tropical dry forest: regional & spatially focused analyses given other social and natural drivers of land use
PI: Alexander Pfaff
The scale of potential global change has motivated a search for effective policies to mitigate... Read More

SGP-HD 009 - PDF file
Designing a methodology to evaluate local knowledge on global change and its role in the construction of future land use scenarios by local actors (SCENARIOS)
PI: Jean-François Tourrand
How do American rural producers perceive and assimilate climate changes and incorporate this knowledge into their future scenarios?... Read More

SGP-HD 014 - PDF file
Decision support system (DSS) for risk reduction in agriculture phase II: soybean DSS for eastern Paraguay and Rio Grande do Sul
PI: Clyde Fraisse
Climate variability, particularly lack or excess of rainfall, is a major agricultural production... Read More

2017-HD - PDF file
Adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes in Latin American cities(ADAPTE)
PI: Patricia Romero Lankao
Urban areas in Latin America are expected to be increasingly affected by heat waves, yet we don’t know how vulnerable populations... Read More

2076-HD - PDF file
Climate Change, Oceanographic Variability and the Artisanal Fisheries in the South West Atlantic (a Human Dimensions program in CRN2076)
PI: Patrízia Raggi Abdallah
Small-scale subsistence fisheries depend on coastal and marine resources. Fishery systems are... Read More