Browsing by Autor "Abzac"

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Dirección de proyectos de acción ambiental con comunidades vulnerables en Bolivia: Entender, Aprender, Proponer
(2023) Abzac
Bolivia's chaotic development has led to alarming environmental pollution over the last 50 years, and is exposing rural communities to an increasing socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability. This situation has provoked, in recent years, a phenomenon of migration due to land use change. During this time, many academic and international cooperation environmental projects have been implemented to help these vulnerable populations, but they have had a limited impact due to the complexity of the situation. The Integrated Water Management component of the CReA Project, funded by VLIR, seeks to find solutions to increase the resilience of communities to water-related problems with an integrated and sustainable vision. The transdisciplinary projects developed are carried out with and for the communities, with the support of other national and international actors. The project "Agua y Vida en La Maica" works in a vulnerable agricultural area of the municipality of Cochabamba and established, with the community, a work based on 3 fundamental axes: "Understanding" through research, "Learning" through knowledge exchanges and "Proposing" with the development of tools adapted to the reality of the community. Keywords: Environmental action projects; Vulnerable communities; Transdisciplinary, Integrated water management
Estudio de escenarios futuros en una fuente de agua potable, Caso Milluni - Bolivia
(2023) Paola Andrea; Avendaño-Acosta; Abzac; Vanesa Lo-Iacono- Ferreira
Water is a necessary resource for life on earth, therefore, water sources for consumption must be prioritized in their care and preservation. This research takes as a study area the lagoons of the upper part of the Milluni micro-watershed, which supply two important cities in Bolivia, La Paz and El Alto. Various studies have exposed the problem of heavy metal contamination in Milluni due to mining activity in the area. However, corrective actions have not yet been taken to reduce the risk to public health and ecosystems. This study aims to identify possible future temperature and precipitation scenarios for Milluni and to observe the repercussion of the impact of the change on the area's water resources. The main result of this research is to generate specific information on the study area, which facilitates decision-making to address Milluni's water problems. Keywords: water quality;heavy metals;safe water;future scenarios