WORKPLAN
The project has three working packages. We work on them in parallel, and findings from one area will inform another while dissemination and outreach are embedded within the three.
Evaluation of direct output and changes over time, using IAD (Institutional Analysis Development) and comparisons across local frameworks and contexts.
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Ecosystem health, including the impact of habitat destruction on human health.
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Change of economic activities and power distribution within four scenarios (conservation and restoration, business as usual, small livelihoods, innovation, and partnerships).
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Culture, values, and behavior towards the environment, focusing on social rules and property rights, traditional knowledge, regulations, and scientific data of local ecology.
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Policy tools and solutions aligned with the documented links between climate change, water, and biodiversity.
Impacts
Literature review and inter-disciplinary and multiple methods for data collection to identify relations built by communities and other stakeholders for the management and governance of CPR.
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Systematic literature reviews: Interactions between climate change - water scarcity - biodiversity loss, Common Pool Resources, Ecosystem Services, socio-ecological framework (SES), best practices for adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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Participatory cartography: mapping to describe and understand how every community uses and governs their territory, the CPR resources (e.g., water bodies, aquifers, fauna and flora, religious sites, among others), and the ecosystems supporting it.
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Framed field experiments: The CPR situations and water extraction caps to identify cooperation practices leading to over-exploitation of aquifers and biodiversity loss.
Social practices for cooperation
We will conduct communication and educational strategies to reach communities, including collaboration between communities and other external actors and developing regional and inter-regional knowledge and support networks. Some of the following action research methods:
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Workshops, capacity building, and community and local authorities to share adaptation strategies.
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Participatory content elicitation by youth groups from the community to support and report the interventions.
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Development of new social networks of support and community cohesion.
Dissemination and outreach
PROJECT DELIVERABLES
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Workshop reports
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Cooperation models
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Communication plan, including videos and podcast
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Data collected from case study sites
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Social maps
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Educational material
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Policy impact models