Policy Brief | Water crisis in the Petorca basin: a combination of water management...
The water shortage in Petorca cannot be explained solely by the megadrought that has affected central Chile over the last decade.
Water management, extraction,...
Policy Brief | Water rights in Chile: An approach at odds with natural processes
In Chile, water is considered a national good for public use and usage rights are granted to private individuals, who as titleholders can use,...
Policy brief | Environmental injustice and sacrifice zones: The Puchuncaví case
The socio-environmental history of Puchuncaví, a renowned sacrifice zone located in the Valparaíso Region, Chile, has been reconstructed for the last 136 years.
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Policy brief CR2 | The Challenges of Air Pollution in the Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay
By Rodrigo Seguel, Researcher at the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2)
Since 1955, various productive activities have been concentrated in the Quintero-Puchuncaví...
Policy brief | Increase of river and stream flow through native forest restoration in...
After 14 years of research, it was shown that recovering areas with native vegetation generates an increase in flows immediately and its maintenance...
Policy brief | What Is Chile’s Long-Term Climate Strategy?
Pilar Moraga, Deputy Director of the Center of Environmental Law of the School of Law of Universidad de Chile and Principal Researcher of the...
Policy brief | Climate change in Chile: the need to diversify nature-based solutions
The national strategy to address climate change relies on land use, land-use change, and forestry to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientific evidence has...
CR2 Policy Brief: What is happening to the native forests of south-central Chile after...
Authors: Claudia Leal Medina, master’s in sciences on Forests and Environment; Mauro E. González, Mauricio Galleguillos, and Javier Lopatín, CR2 researchers
Edited by: José Barraza,...
Policy Brief | Change in Chile’s fire regime
The occurrence of extremely destructive, hard-to-control fires – called megafires - has increased in south-central Chile since 2010, causing serious social, economic, and environmental...
Policy brief CR2 | Rural Women and Water Management: Towards Gender-Responsive Water Security in...
Macarena Salinas, Training Coordinator at CR2; Isaura Becker, Ph.D. Candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Tarapacá; María Christina Fragkou, Adjunct Researcher at...
