Thirteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

This online paper problematizes the paradigm of “Integrated Management of Water Resources” and “Water Security” and contributions that it can be made to Public Environmental Policy in Chile to improve water management, as it also expects to be a contribution for scholar research on wetlands in Chile, through the analysis of this ecosystem, capable of housing abundant species of birds and each other endangered animals, as well as fulfilling vital function as a reservoir of fresh potable water to regulate the humidity of the environment and to supply water and minerals with underground water. Due to its fragile ecosystem, the Chilean government arise up a national plan for the Protection of Wetlands 2018-2022 has been created to mitigate the anthropogenic and climate change effects, although due to the lack of technical control, standardization of information and monitoring of these vital ecosystems, this National plan just privileges around 5% of 40,000 national wetlands present in Chile, omitting in the Protection those coastal ecosystems that were not considered within in National Plan, which generates greater challenges in the future to solve serious crisis that Chile suffers from the cases of Petorca and Aculeo Lagoon in the actually contexts of the “Mega Drought” since 2010.