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Water Transformations Pathways Planning
Date
2022 to 2027
Location
Xochimilco Wetland
Link to the project
Rol
Member of the consortium and part of the research node in Mexico
Team
Co-Coordinators: Patricia Pérez Belmont and Lakshmi Charli Joseph
Collaborators: Beatriz López Arboleda
Organizations
- Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
- National Laboratory of Sustainability Sciences, Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Mexico.
- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, UNAM, Mexico
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Financing
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This project generally seeks to develop planning tools, approaches, and concepts to support proactive, adaptive, and joint management of transformation pathways in the water sector. The consortium is made up of seven transdisciplinary research nodes working on the following case studies: the Brahmaputra River Basin, the Nile River Basin, the Gezira Irrigation System, the Mekong Delta, the Yala and Kingwal wetlands, the Xochimilco wetland, and the Wadden Sea.
The research node in Mexico seeks to analyze the current governance landscape and how it influences management practices and ways of addressing the challenges associated with the area. It also seeks to contribute to the design of spaces and support processes in which transformative narratives can be co-created that can increase the sense of agency and support alternative and pluralistic ways of acting towards the sustainability of the wetland.
Umbela participates specifically in a research sub-project to map those initiatives currently working in the wetland and its area of influence that have transformative potential, with the aim of seeking initiatives with which to forge meaningful relationships, supporting them in strengthening their networks and alliances, in their learning processes, and contributing to the empowerment of these initiatives. Our intention is to build bridges and find ways to promote the well-being, defense, and sustainability of this territory.
