INTERDISCIPLINARY VISIONS ON SOCIO-TERRITORIAL CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
The acceleration of the global environmental crisis places unprecedented pressures on territories and the communities that inhabit them. Climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are not isolated phenomena: they manifest in the vulnerability of livelihoods, the erosion of ecosystem services, and the fragility of the infrastructure that sustains human well-being. Addressing this complexity requires moving beyond sectoral views and building responses through disciplinary convergence.
This symposium brings together perspectives from ecology, the social sciences, geography, engineering and public policy to analyze the socio-territorial challenges of the environmental crisis and, above all, to advance the search for concrete, articulated and scalable solutions. The central axis of this search is an adaptation planning platform that organizes more than 70 types of solutions into three complementary strategic lines.
The first line, Community-Based Adaptation (L1), starts from recognizing people as active agents of change. Its programs—education, commercial, administrative and productive strengthening—seek to strengthen rural and urban livelihoods, equipping communities with the capacities to anticipate, resist and recover from climate impacts.
The second line, Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (L2), integrates knowledge generation, ecological restoration and environmental sustainability as pillars in the search for solutions that conserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services. This line recognizes that healthy ecosystems are, in themselves, the most efficient infrastructure for adaptation.
The third line, Infrastructure-Based Adaptation (L3), directs the search toward the built dimension of the territory: water retention and regulation, protection against hydrometeorological hazards, reducing direct climate dependence, and increasing productive efficiency shape interventions that reduce exposure and increase the physical resilience of settlements and productive systems.
The three lines converge in a platform that not only systematizes the available solutions but also facilitates their prioritization, design and monitoring using technical, participatory and intercultural criteria, responding to the particularities of each territory.
The symposium proposes that the environmental crisis, far from being only a threat, is also an opportunity to rethink the relationship between society and territory through interdisciplinarity and collective action. Adaptation is not a distant horizon: it is a practice already being built, and this platform offers the map for navigating it.
