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What is Latin America Doing Regarding the Research and Teaching of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to Boost Environmental Education?

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Enhancing Environmental Education Through Nature-Based Solutions

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) emerge with the aim of facing the several different challenges imposed by climate change and the extreme conditions that humanity is facing. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate NbS related research and teaching in order to prompt environmental education in Latin America. As a means to obtain information about the types of courses and undergraduate research and/or postgraduate training that has being done, investigation groups from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru were reached with the help of the Pan-American Constructed Wetlands Network (HUPANAM). This information was complemented with a Web of Science (WoS) review of Nbs publications in Latin America in 2010–2020. Within the study period 2010–2020, a total of 706 studies related to NbS were found in Latin America, being the groups in Brazil (319), Mexico (151), and Chile (83) the ones that led in the number of published research. Additionally, during the study period, an increase of 65% from 2010 to 2020 of publications in WoS could be observed due to the studies conducted by different researchers from Latin America. The most studied topics regarding NbS are constructed wetlands (CW) (38%), biofilters (23%), and stabilization ponds (16%). In terms of the promotion of environmental education related to NbS, a series of books, book chapters and courses can be found. For instance, the book “Constructed Wetlands: Design and Operation”, the book chapter “Strategies of the constructed wetlands operation under the perspective of the global change scenario” and undergraduate courses and summer schools related to CW can be highlighted.

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This study was funded by the following Grants: ANID/FONDAP/15130015. A.M. Leiva thanks to National for Research and Development (ANID) for her Scholarship Program National for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/Doctorado Nacional/2019-21191116, for supporting her Ph.D. studies at the Universidad de Concepción. Also, authors thank to Dr. M. von Sperling from Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brasil), Dr. P. Sezerino from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil), Dr. A. Mine from Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina), Dr. R. Miglio from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru), Dr. T. López Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay) and F. Zurita from Centro Universitario de la Ciénega (México) for the information provided.

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Contreras, J., Leiva, A.M., González, Y., Vidal, G. (2022). What is Latin America Doing Regarding the Research and Teaching of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to Boost Environmental Education?. In: Vasconcelos, C., Calheiros, C.S.C. (eds) Enhancing Environmental Education Through Nature-Based Solutions. Integrated Science, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91843-9_10

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