LATIN AMERICA

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LATIN AMERICA CARIBBEAN(sub-package 6)

• EACH-FOR Kick-Off-Meeting
• 22-23 March 2007 Brussels
• Stefan Alscher

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About the Team

• Distribution of person-months
• UNIBI 8, UPV-EHU 6, SERI 1.6 total 15.6
  person-months allocated for work in the
  sub-package 6 UNICEN acts as joint team of
  UPV-EHU
• Division of tasks by regions
• UNIBI Mexico Caribbean (Dominican Republic)
• UPV-EHU Ecuador
• UNICEN South America, especially Argentine
• SERI input on environmental degradation
• Strong presence in the region of research (UNICEN
  based in Argentine, one researcher of UNIBI based
  in Mexico)

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Approximate Timing for 2007

• March May
• Overview Study on Latin America and the Caribbean
• Identification of main environmental changes and
  of migration flows and patterns
• Final selection of cases events
• Conference in Tandil, Argentina and participation
  at a seminar in Barcelona
• Preparing case studies
• first Pilot Study on Mexico

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Approximate Timing for 2007

• June October
• Delivering General Overview Study and first
  country Report Mex. (end of June)
• Carrying out case studies
• Task specification
• Data evaluation
• Interviews in the field
• November / December and early 08
• Analysis and description of fieldwork output
• Comparative analysis of case studies

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Fieldwork Plans

• Argentine march-december 2007 focus on
  desertification, soil degradation and
  water-shortage areas Chaco, Pampa, Patagonia.
• Dominican Republic fieldwork autumn/winter 2007
  focus on tropical storms and sea-level rise.
• Ecuador timing of fieldwork most fieldwork
  will be done in destination country Spain focus
  on deforestation, desertification and soil
  degradation areas Andean Region, Pacific Coast.
• Mexico first fieldtrips in spring 2007, further
  fieldwork from autumn 2007 to spring 2008 (local
  presence) focus on desertification,
  water-shortage, tropical storms and sea-level
  rise, areas Gulf Coast, South-East, Tlaxcala,
  Zacatecas.

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Subcontracting Plans

• Argentine UNICEN as joint team member,
  historical and actual data collection. Amount to
  be spent approx. 1.500 Euro.
• Dominican Republic subcontracting partner has
  not been selected yet tasks interviews with
  local population of affected areas (by students)
  amount to be spent approx. 2-3.000 Euro
• Ecuador as at Dominican Rep., local
  subcontractor is now in way to be hired. Tasks
  field research and data collection. Amount to be
  spent approx. 5.000 Euro.
• Mexico no subcontracting needed (local presence)
• Eventually another Andean Country

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Responsible Persons

• Subpackage-Leader Stefan Alscher
• List of involved researchers (by partner
  institutions)
• UNIBI Stefan Alscher (sociologist), Thomas Faist
  (political scientist)
• UPV-EHU Oscar Alvarez Gila (historian), Alberto
  Angulo Morales (historian), Ana Ugalde
  (geographer), Virginia Lopez de Maturana
  (historian).
• UNICEN Maria Celia Garcia (geogr.), Marcelino
  Iriani (hist.), Ana Fernandez (geogr.), Guillermo
  Velaz (geogr.)
• SERI Jill Jäger (environmental scientist)

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Estimated Person-Months per Case-Study