Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES)

Description

The Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES) is a scientific and technological research center of excellence that emerged in July 2014 with Basal Funds from the National Agency of Research and Development from Chile (ANID-PIA). CAPES main mission is to carry out applied research on environmental issues relevant to the sustainable development of Chile, in the international context of OECD standards (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and international free trade agreements. CAPES scientists belong to different Chilean universities and to private or public corporations. Our lines of research are: (1) environmental impacts of metals and soil reclamation, (2) bioengineering approaches to environmental protection and sustainable technologies, (3) physiology of global change, (4) population dynamics, global change and socio-ecological sustainability, (5) sustainable management of natural resources and research on public policies, (6) ecological intensification for sustainable agriculture and (7) ecosystem services and human behavior.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Francisca Boher
email: fboher@bio.puc.cl

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
César González
Telephone: +56966419287
email: cesar.glagos@gmail.com

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Fabian Jaksic
email: fjaksic@bio.puc.cl

Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES)
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Av. Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 340, Santiago, CHILE
Santiago
7510177
RM
CL
email: vcaballero@bio.puc.cl