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Fany Ramos Quispe

Environmental Engineer with a focus on Environmental Change and International Development and the Science-Policy interface. Member of OWSD Bolivia and current IAI STeP Fellow at the Belmont Forum.

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Transdisciplinary science is key to achieving sustainability

Coauthors Camellia Kodia, Jihye Hwang, Rebecca Barnes Transdisciplinary science seeks integrated effort of different actors to create joint and diverse solutions that can be applied to reality and generate broad, comprehensive and inclusive knowledge.

World Environment Day: 50 years after its creation

Coauthor María Inés Carabajal Due to the negative effects that began to become evident in the 1960s, the first international conversations on the environment started in 1972.

Mother Earth is beyond human beings

Under the leadership of Bolivia, the United Nations General Assembly designated 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009.

Global challenges are changing the paradigms of science

Current science aims to develop knowledge and high technology to better "manage" the Earth and its resources. However, it would probably be more worthwhile to focus on evaluating our behavior.