Publicaciones

Autores: V. Carter, B. Derudder, C. Henríquez.

Libro: Land Use Policy. 

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Autores: J. Goetz, R. Kohrs, E. Parra Hormazábal, M. Bustos Morales, M.B. Araneda Riquelme, C. Henríquez, A. Brenning.

Libro: Nat. Hazards Earth System Sciences. 

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Autores: G. Amarisa, S. Hess, J. Gironás, J.D. Ortúzar.

Libro: Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 

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Autores: Gloria Amaris, Richard Dawson, Jorge Gironás, Stephane Hess, Juan de Dios Ortúzar

Revista: Water Research 184 (2020) 116007; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061540

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Greywater reuse can allow substantial improvements in the efficiency of potable water systems. However, widespread uptake of greywater reuse depends on its acceptability by the population. Previous studies have assessed the implementation costs of greywater reuse technology, and considered its acceptability in principle. Although cost is clearly very important in terms of adopting/installing the technology, the actual perception of greywater reuse is crucial in driving the acceptability of use and the long-term success of the technology. This study uses discrete choice models to quantify, for the first time, the preferences of different socio-economic groups for greywater of different quality (colour, odour) and for different uses inside homes.

Autores: Guillermo Olmedo, Mario Guevara, Horacio Gilabert, Cristián Montes, Eduardo Arellano, Beatriz Barría-Knopf, Francisco Gárate, Pablo Mena-Quijada, Eduardo Acuña, Horacio Bown, Michael Ryan.

Revista: Forests 2020, 11(10), 1063; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11101063

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Forest plantations have a large potential for carbon sequestration, playing an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, despite the large amount of research carried out worldwide, the absolute contribution of forest plantations is still incomplete for some parts of the world. To help bridge this gap, we calculated the amount of C stock in three fast growing forest species in Chile. Carbon pools in above-ground and below-ground biomass, forest floor, and soil were considered for this analysis. Across the plantation forests of Chile, carbon accumulated in the above-ground biomass was 181–212 Mg · ha−1 for Pinus radiata, 147–180 Mg · ha−1 for Eucalyptus nitens, and 95–117 Mg · ha−1 for Eucalyptus globulus (age 20–24 years for P. radiata and 10–14 years for Eucalyptus).

Autores: Sebastián Vicuña, Christopher Scott, Sophia Borgias, Sebastián Bonelli, Eduardo Bustos

Revista: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2020, 44:93–103 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.003

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Adaptation to global-change processes is conventionally based on assessment of human and environmental drivers and vulnerabilities. Institutionalizing adaptation involves interactive planning, implementation, and iterative evaluation of response measures and their outcomes, accompanied by adaptive-capacity enhancement. When applied in a river-basin context, adaptive management has to respond to hydroclimatic variability and uncertainty coupled with rapid growth in urban and agricultural water demands and often the deterioration of ecosystem services.

Autores: Juliana A. Vianna, Flávia A. N. Fernandes, María José Frugone, Henrique V. Figueiró, Luis R. Pertierra, Daly Noll, Ke Bi, Cynthia Y. Wang-Claypool, Andrew Lowther, Patricia Parker, Celine Le Bohec, Francesco Bonadonna, Barbara Wienecke, Pierre Pistorius, Antje Steinfurth, Christopher P. Burridge, Gisele P. M. Dantas, Elie Poulin, W. Brian Simison, Jim Henderson, Eduardo Eizirik, Mariana F. Nery, and Rauri C. K. Bowie

Revista: PNAS September 8, 2020 117 (36) 22303-22310 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006659117

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Penguins are the only extant family of flightless diving birds. They currently comprise at least 18 species, distributed from polar to tropical environments in the Southern Hemisphere. The history of their diversification and adaptation to these diverse environments remains controversial. We used 22 new genomes from 18 penguin species to reconstruct the order, timing, and location of their diversification, to track changes in their thermal niches through time, and to test for associated adaptation across the genome. Our results indicate that the penguin crown-group originated during the Miocene in New Zealand and Australia, not in Antarctica as previously thought, and that Aptenodytes is the sister group to all other extant penguin species.

Autores: Diego Subercaseaux, Juan Gastó, José Tomás Ibarra, Eduardo Arellano.

Revista: Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6301; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166301

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In the Anthropocene, humans have become the dominant force behind the transformation of the planet and its cultural landscapes. In recent decades, there has been a paradigm shift in the sciences, changing the focus from the study of separate components to the study of wholes. In light of this, several fields of study have attempted to address the dichotomous paradigm of nature versus society by developing integrative concepts, such as ‘social metabolism’, to explain the inextricable interrelations between nature and society for building a sustainable future. In this paper, we examine the metabolism of cultural landscapes, considering the actions of social actors in their territories.

Autores: María Ibañez, Jorge Gironás, Christian Oberli, Cristián Chadwick, René Garreaud

Revista: International Journal of Climatology (2020): 1-20 - https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6743

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The spatial distribution of surface air temperatures is essential for understanding and modelling high‐relief environments. Good estimations of the surface temperature lapse rate (STLR) and the 0°C isotherm height (H0) are fundamental for hydrological modelling in mountainous basins. Although STLR changes in space and time, it is typically assumed to be constant leading to errors in the estimation of direct‐runoff volumes and flash‐floods risk assessment. This paper characterizes daily and seasonal temporal variations of the in‐situ STLR and H0 over the western slope of the subtropical Andes (central Chile).

Autores: Rafael Undurraga, Sebastián Vicuña, Oscar Melo

Revista: Water 2020, 12(6), 1540; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061540

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A city resilient to climate change is characterized by effectively responding to and recovering from the negative impacts of climate hazards. In the city of Santiago, Chile, extreme weather that can be associated with a nascent manifestation of climate change has caused high-turbidity events, repeatedly forcing the main water company to interrupt the supply of drinking water, affecting millions of people. This study proposes a transformative response to reduce harm from extreme events due to climate change.