THEMATIC AREAS
1. Environmental Sciences and Climate Change
2. Integrated water management and community governance
3. Geohydrology and karst aquifer systems
4. Public health and water quality
1. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
Approach: multidisciplinary, integrating climate, soil, vegetation and water.
Impact of climate change.
In aquifers, wetlands, mangroves, the ocean, and other bodies of water.
Ecological vulnerability to prolonged droughts.
Loss of biodiversity.
Diffuse pollution.
Policies to mitigate climate change
2. INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE.
Focus: community participation, public policies, water economics, territorial equity.
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Water governance at the local and state levels.
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Community monitoring systems.
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Citizen water oversight committees.
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Participatory legislation.
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Ethics and water justice.
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Right to water.
3. GEOHYDROLOGY AND SYSTEMS
KARST AQUIFERS.
Approach: technical-scientific, oriented towards understanding the underground water system of the peninsula.
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Dynamics of the water table in karst soils.
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Modeling of underground flows.
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Pollution and overexploitation of cenotes and aquifers.
4. PUBLIC HEALTH AND WATER QUALITY.
Focus: water-health link, epidemiological risk.
Diseases associated with contaminated water.
Heavy metals and pesticides in water.
Access to safe water in rural and indigenous communities.
5. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, CULTURE
AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE .
Approach: humanistic, educational and intercultural.
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Water management practices and customs
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Environmental education on the peninsula
Yucatán -
Ecotechnologies
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Art and communication for water security
6. ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE
Focus: open.
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Ethnography and anthropology of water.
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Cosmovision and ancestral rituals surrounding water.
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Ancient methods for water collection and distribution.
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Water in the codices.
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Water and traditional Mayan midwifery.
7. TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATIONS.
For the treatment, sanitation, collection and reuse of water.
Techniques to avoid waste.
Techniques for optimizing water use for domestic, agricultural, industrial and tourism consumption.
Hydrological monitoring and decontamination with emerging technologies.