Exemplary knowledge transfer from Germany to Patagonia as contribution to the regional achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030

H WALENTOWSKI; S HOHNWALD; M THREN; M KAPPAS; C LEUSCHNER; JD LENCINAS; JO BAVA; G LOGUERCIO; F URRETAVIZCAYA; C BARROTAEVEÑA; G MARTÍNEZ PASTUR; S ZERBE

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research

BJSTR

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2020 vol. 25 p. 19388 - 19391

2574-1241

In order to achieve the UN Sustainability Goals 2030 (UNSG2030), a broad range of knowledge and expertise are required, as well as consensual quality standards and scientifically aligned ways. It represents an enormous challenge to achieve a sustainable land use, and at the same time, to stop the significant changes occurred during the Holocene and biodiversity loss associated to the human impacts on Earth´s ecosystems (the new era called `Anthropocene´). Here we have to consider not only the human direct impact, but also the effects of climate change on abiotic plant stress (Goal 13: Climate Action). The Sword of Damocles hanging over terrestrial biodiversity (Goal 15: Life on Land) is the imminent and ever-present peril of increasing risks of unpredictable hazards due to the climate change, e.g. forest fires, hurricanes, floodings, and different diseases. Undoubtedly, we need a collective intelligence and a worldwide cooperative scientific research to tackle this issue (Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal). We consider that a lot of potential innovation can be created at the interface of the interdisciplinary approach, so, it is wise to develop a research cooperation covering a wide context of knowledge, just as were considered in the UNSG2030. Moreover, we need a rapid progress of this agenda to develop management and conservation strategies that increase the forest resilience to these threats. Most notably, we have to support the creativity, fresh ideas and new skills of our students and junior researchers. They must be our priority, because they carry our hope for the future. We are convinced that a trans-continental and trans-hemispheric collaboration offers a strong opportunity for proper solution approaches. Using concrete case examples, we expect to show how analogue and complementary are the landscape features and experiences that can be combined for a higher purpose of innovative synergy potential. In addition to this, it we will provide a framework for a bilateral academic exchange between Germany and Argentina, at the same level and considering mutual research topics in the incoming years.