On promoting education and community adaptation in Global South&#8217;s studies populating the Digital Water Globe: the DREAMS project for the HELPING Science Decade
Authors: Taffarello Denise , Bressiani Danielle , Nardocci Adelaide , Dias Susana , Marchioni Dirce Maria Lobo , Montenegro Suzana Gico , Benso Marcos Roberto , Marinho e Silva Gabriel , Costa Veber Afonso Figueiredo , Nascimento Nilo , dos Santos Fernandes Wilson , Marengo Jose Antonio , Anache Jamil , Mendiondo Eduardo Mario 
Published: March 2024

We present a contribution to promote education and community adaptation from a Global South&#8217;s case-study to populate the Digital Water Globe. From a NSFC-FAPESP project &#8216;Flash DRought Event evolution chAracteristics and the response Mechanism to climate change considering the Spatial correlations (DREAMS)', we discuss lessons for the IAHS HELPING Decade. DREAMS aims to respond to &#8220;science-for-policy" and &#8220;education-for-action&#8221; questions around Sustainable Development Goals of what adaptation pathways are feasible to cope with human-water impacts under change. DREAMS is organized into Research Methods of Drought resilience through Community-based Adaptation (CbA), Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Participatory Action Research (PAR). DREAMS seeks for enhancing local case studies for the IAHS/Digital Water Globe with the multidimensional impacts of flash droughts addressed to SDGs nexuses of poverty, health, education, sanitation, economy and climate action. Here we discuss a DREAMS-CbA initiative in the headwaters of the Corumbata&#237; river basin (PCJ River Basin Committee, MG-SP, Brazil) for building community knowledge of climate change and pro-environmental behaviours adapted into both new climate activism and teachers&#8217; curriculum. In 2023, DREAMS started CbA strategies in different education levels for tradeoffs for drought&#8217;s duration, namely: in the primary schools, with teachers and pupils of local schools at the headwaters of selected river basins; in higher education, through the community-adapted curricula.&#160; In primary schools, with a CbA strategy based on educational methods of Science, Technology, Society and Environment (&#8220;CTSA, Ci&#234;ncia, Tecnologia, Sociedade, Ambiente&#8221; , in Portuguese), the DREAMS&#8217;&#160; researchers conducted the local project &#8220;&#193;rvores da Amizade e &#193;gua: Preservar para n&#227;o faltar!&#8221; (Friendship Trees and Water: Preservation and Conservation) with environmental education and climate-adaptation in the PCJ river basins&#8217; headwaters with teachers, staff and pupils of the public school EMEF Profa Zez&#233; Salles, Anal&#226;ndia-SP (Taffarello, 2023). DREAMS&#8217; communication and open science literacy are expanded by:&#160; a new UNESCO Chair; the USP Center for Education and Research on Disasters (http://www.ceped.eesc.usp.br/); the Braz. Water Resources Assoc. Technical Commission on Education, and three Braz. Inst. of Sci. &amp; Tech., INCTs, of &#8220;Climate Change-Phase 2&#8221;(CEMADEN), &#8220;Food Insecurity (FSP/USP)&#8221; and &#8220;Nat. Observatory for Water Security &amp; Adaptive Mgmt&#8221;, ONSEAdapta (UFPE, https://onseadapta.org). With Panta Rhei groups, and during the 100-year drought of Amazon river, DREAMS promotes archetypes of the Coevolution of the Amazon-Sanitation-Hygiene Paradox. DREAMS&#8217; future work envisages more local examples for DWG, i.e. river basins of Yangtze (China), S&#227;o Francisco (Brazil), Amazon and Parana (transboundary). References: Mendiondo, E M (2023) Flash DRought Event evolution chAracteristics and response Mechanism to climate change considering Spatial correlations, FAPESP 2022/08468-0, https://bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/111385/flash-drought-event-evolution-characteristics-and-the-response-mechanism-to-climate-change-consideri/; Taffarello, D (2023) &#8220;&#193;rvores da amizade e &#193;gua: preservar para n&#227;o faltar!&#8221;, CTSA Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Anal&#226;ndia-SP, EMEF Profa Zez&#233; Salles, Environmental Education Project, Report.