Browsing by Author "Nolivos Alvarez, Indira Yadira"

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Challenges for a sustainable management of Ecuadorian water resources
(2015) Nolivos Alvarez, Indira Yadira; Villacís, Marcos; Vázquez Zambrano, Raúl Fernando; Mora Serrano, Diego Esteban; Dominguez Granda, Luis Elvin; Hampel, Henrietta; Velarde, Elizabeth
This paper depicts opinions that condense the thinking of different sectors (i.e., academia, government, private sector, etc.) dealing in certain degree with the management of Ecuadorian water resources. Particularly, the manuscript echoes the main conclusions of a national Workshop that was held in Quito by mid 2014, about the sustainable use of water resources in Ecuador, with the purpose of proposing a research agenda adapted to the priority needs of governmental agencies. The paper discusses several key issues for the management of Ecuadorian water resources such as the urgent need for an active involvement of the national academy into the problem analysis/solving process for water management purposes, in a view of sustainable development, and as a way of warranting the effectiveness of the national policy for development oriented research that the current government is promoting. Herein, there is a need for complementing this policy by promoting a national system that foster communication between the water governmental institutions and the scientific community in terms of opportunities (financial and logistical) for scientific research in water resources and stakeholders engagement. Further, the paper stresses the urgent need of gathering and structuring all relevant knowledge/information/data into a unique repository for decision support that relies on auxiliary tools such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), numerical modelling and associated uncertainty analyses, etc.; this in conjunction with the establishment and maintenance of a national monitoring network of water resources related environmental variables.
Improving water management education across the Latin America and caribbean region
(2019) Domínguez Granda, Luis Elvin; Hampel, Henrietta; Lam, Norris; Nolivos Alvarez, Indira Yadira; Reinstorf, Frido; Lyon, Steve W.; Ho, Long; Rodríguez Tejeda, Raymundo C.; Vázquez Zambrano, Raúl Fernando; Goethals, Peter; Schneider, Petra
Education can help secure inclusive and resilient development around water resources. However, it is difficult to provide the latest science to those managing water resources (both now and in the future). Collectively, we hypothesize that dissemination and promotion of scientific knowledge using students as central agents to transfer theoretical knowledge into practice is an efficient way to address this difficulty. In this study, we test this hypothesis in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region as a representative case study region. First, we use a literature review to map a potential gap in research on education around water resources across the LAC region. We then review potential best practices to address this gap and to better translate water resources education techniques into the LAC region. Integral to these efforts is adopting students as agents for information transfer to help bridge the gap between the global state-of-the science and local water resources management. Our results highlight the need to establish a new standard of higher educational promoting exchange between countries as local populations are vulnerable to future shifts in climate at global scales and changes in land usage at regional scales. The new standard should include peer-to-peer mentoring achieved by jointly exchanging and training students and practitioners in water management techniques, increasing access to water data and pedagogic information across the region, and lowering administration roadblocks that prevent student exchange