INTRODUCTION:The Institute for the Sciences of Nature, Territory and Renewable Energies (INTE) is an institute for research, academic training and promotion in terms of ecological and socio-environmental concerns, biodiversity, territory and renewable energies.

The University Council created INTE on 7th of March 2011. It is part of PUCP s Vice- Rectorate for Research.

It is based on the long experience on environmental issues of the Center for Research in Applied Geography (1984), the Rural Sector Support Group (1992) and the Institute for Environmental Studies (1994).

VISION:

The vision of INTE is to be an institute for research and the promotion of academic excellence, in the fields of natural and territorial sciences.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, with ethics and social responsibility, it seeks to be internationally recognized for its contributions to science, education, technological innovation and sustainable development.

GOALS:

• Be at the forefront of knowledge and scientific research in terms of ecological, territorial, socio-environmental and renewable energy concerns.

• Support, promote and generate value for the environment in Peru.

• Provide training in environmental issues with ethical responsibility.

• Develop proposals and alternatives in the fields of innovation, technology transfer, development and sustainable management.

• Provide information and monitor environmental practices of government offices and the civil society.

VICE-RECTOR FOR RESEARCH

Prof. Pepi Patrón

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Prof. Augusto Castro (President)

Prof. Nicole Bernex

Prof. Eric Cosio

Prof. Miguel Hadzich

Prof. Fernando Roca

Prof. Hildegardo Córdova

Prof. Carlos Tavares

Prof. Ana Sabogal

Prof. Urphy Vásquez

DIRECTOR:

Prof. Augusto Castro

Center for research in applied geography (CIGA)

The Center for research in applied geography (CIGA) is a research group of INTE-PUCP, created in May 1984 to respond a threefold need: to strengthen and spread a new geographical methodology (systematic approach), to generate hard information and thorough knowledge of the national territory, and to showcase the importance of the geographical research focused on the regional and local development of our country.

Coordinator: Prof. Nicole Bernex

Biogeosciences

Research group dedicated to the study of biological, physical and geographical processes in the context of climate change, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The research program is especially focused on Peruvian Andean- Amazonian Ecosystems to allow a better understanding of their natural processes and to provide the foundations for an improve management of the biodiversity and natural resources.

Coordinators: Prof. Eric Cosio ; Prof. Martín Timaná

Rural sector support group

Operational unit of the engineering department and board member of INTE-PUCP. Since 1992, the group has undertaken development projects for the peasant community, related to applied scientific research, technology and innovation transfer, dissemination and promotion of appropriated technologies and environmental conservation activities. Its goal consists in improving the life quality of the rural population in terms of energy, water, farming and housing, through the dissemination and application of appropriated technologies that contribute to the sustainable development of the rural sector in Peru.

Coordinator: Prof. Miguel Hadzich

RESEARCH GROUPS:

Ethics, environment and society

The group is made up of professionals concerned about the socio-environmental matter and its ethical impact on our society. They conduct field research to measure the situations of poverty and extreme poverty, the natural resources and the social and environmental conflicts. The first studies were undertaken on the situation of communities impacted by extractive companies, either for gas or mining. It is therefore important for the companies to assume corporate social responsibility for strategic planning.

Coordinator: Prof. Augusto Castro

Peruvian life-cycle network

Research network specialized in environmental impacts, formed by a group of professionals and university students from different specialities, with a strong common interest in contributing to the society and the environment through life-cycle thinking.

Coordinator: Prof. María Isabel Quispe

Forests and reforestation

The group is focused on the study of coastal and mountain forests in Peru. The main objectives are to assess the conservation status of the forests, to analyze the anthropogenic interactions and to suggest and conduct research related to forest recovery.

Coordinator: Prof. Ana Sabogal

Interculturality and environment

Our aim is to promote interdisciplinary research, education and information, about the ways in which indigenous societies and local communities produce and exchange their knowledge about nature and the environment.

We also want to promote the awareness and engagement of civil society, and forward proposals for a genuine intercultural dialogue between local communities and the State.

Coordinator: Prof. Yolanda Rodríguez

Energy and environmental analysis services

The group was created in 1993 to work on energy and

environmental issues. Its purpose is to mainstream

environmental sustainability into national and international

activities in the country. The unit offers services including

consulting, research, technological development and

training for managers. It also carries out activities to

enhance social responsibility.

Coordinator: Prof. Fernando Jiménez

Bio-trade and green growth

The group was created mid-2012, based on the academic activities developed in the Master of Bio-trade and Sustainable Development and by the Faculty of Social Sciences. The challenges of climate change require the formulation of new approaches and possible answers. One of the responses is the green and inclusive growth, and we believe that the biotrade may be an option. The group reflects on theoretical proposals and international negotiations of the country, and elaborates concrete alternatives to improve the green and inclusive growth in Peru.

Coordinator: Prof. Alan Fairlie

Environment and society

The group was created to promote, visualize and improve the socio-environmental research and education in the country. The members of GEAS are committed to interface interdisciplinary approaches with the human-environment interaction, in the frameworks of adaptation, conflicts, education and transformations. This requires a broad understanding of the social, economic and political analysis levels that goes hand in hand with the knowledge of the physical environment. In that way, the members of the group represent different disciplines and have multiple approaches to understand the complexity of the socio-environmental problems.

Coordinators: Prof. Gerardo Damonte ; Prof. Teresa Oré

Environmental law

The group conducts research on legal and environmental issues (doctrine, legislation, jurisprudence) and promotes the citizenship’s training on these topics. It develops proposals for the environmental management of the investments from the governance perspective. The group encourages the participation of the local and regional governments, the private sector, the academy and the civil society, boosting the equity and sustainability of the country.

Coordinator: Prof. Pierre Foy

Coal biomass

Specialized technological unit dedicated to the development, research and promotion of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy technologies for the transformation and use of biomass and mineral coal as biofuel.

Coordinator: Prof. Estela Assureira

Climate change and disaster risk management

The group has the purpose to develop research and train specialists in climate change related topics from a transdisciplinary viewpoint. It considers the disaster risk management as the most effective way to reduce and mitigate the impacts of the climate change and climate variability. The aim is to contribute to the viability of the country reaching sustainable development.

Coordinator: Prof. John Earls

Earth Center

Multidisciplinary research group that belongs to the Institute for Natural Sciences, Territory and Renewable Energies (INTE), and is af filiated to the Department of Architecture and Urbanism. Its research is oriented towards the earthen architecture, in its cultural, technological and social aspects. Member of the UNESCO chair “earthen architecture, construction cultures and sustainable development” that promotes the use of earth and local resources for the habitat and local heritage, developing higher education, research and information dissemination.

Coordinator: Prof. Sofía Rodriguez-Larraín

Innovation for sustainable development

Group of researchers recognized for the generation of scientific evidence related to the creation of innovative models for the sustainable development. They are experienced in research integrating the economic, social, environmental and technological aspects. The aim is to generate socially just and ecologically balanced development processes. The group promotes intra- and inter-generational equity.

For this purpose, the investment and the scientific and technological progress must be directed towards the fundamental human needs of the present without compromising those of future generations.

Coordinator: Prof. Marta Tostes

The Research, Training and Legal Counseling Center

Was created in 2003 as a subunit of the Academic Department of Law. Its purpose includes the promotion, design and development of academic and legal research projects as well as the provision of training, consultancy and legal aid services for national and international institutions. In the last few years, it has given priority to the research onWater Law from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. In this regard,it annually carries out the Water Law Symposium (Jornadas de Derecho de Aguas) with the participation of international renowned academics. Moreover, the Center also has publications on all the areas of Law.

Coordinator: Prof. Patricia Urteaga

Anampiki

Interdisciplinary working group formed by young

professionals and students, who conduct research,

experience, develop, evaluate and share solutions

to the necessities of the vulnerable population of

our country, principally in the Amazon region. Using

an interdisciplinary approach, they adopt horizontal

communication, conduct ethnographic research

and apply design thinking and user-centered design

methodologies. They bet on empowerment and use of

resources and local knowledge to reach the sustainability

of the projects, allowing every person o community to be

agent of its own development.

Coordinator: Fiorella Belli

Munay

Munay (“will”, in quechua) is a youth organization with an interdisciplinary viewpoint, seeking to transform the citizen in agents of change for a sustainable development, promoting their involvement in a platform of projects, which incorporates the areas of research, education, communication, incidence, voluntary work and internship.

Coordinator: Alonso Tufino

Tricycles “Communication and development”

The group consists in a team of communicators interested in the sustainable human and environmental development of the country. Motivated by the social change, they seek to contribute to the creation of an environmentally engaged citizenship, encouraging participation, dialogue and creativity.

Representative: Lucía López

Carbon-cycle dynamics in Amazonian forests of south-east Peru

by the Biogeosciences group

This project focuses on the carbon-cycle components in the forest of the Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios. The methodology consists in the quantitative continuous monitoring of fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and volatile organic compounds, above the forest canopy, and within permanent plots within the forest and the analysis of their correlation with climate variables.

River-generators PUCP

by the Rural sector support group

Electricity and water pumping with clean energy, using low-cost innovative hydraulic wheels, as a replicable solution for the population.

Life-cycle assessment of the biodiesel from the oil palm and Jatropha curcas in the Peruvian Amazon region

by the Peruvian life-cycle network group

The aim of this study is to quantify the impacts of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) during the life-cycle of the biofuels produced from oil palm and Jatropha in the Peruvian Amazon.

Doña Olga: Improved institutional stove

by the Coal biomass group

In the year 2005 we have developed and applied the program on technology transfer related to an improved institutional portable wood-fired stove. Currently 4300 school and communal canteens, located in the rural and urban marginal areas, are equipped with this stove.

OUTSTANDING PROJECTS

Universal energy access in Huancavelica

by the Ethics, environment and society group

The aim of this study is to gather information in the Pilpichaca – Huancavelica district for the development of the pilot program run by the state, concerning the universal energy access for the population in Huancavelica. This program will also provide lighting to 100% of the region’s households.

Botanical garden PUCP

by the Forests and reforestation group

This project is designed to turn the PUCP campus into a botanical garden. It presents the plant families of the major Peruvian ecosystems, such as the tropical dry forest of Piura and Tumbes, northern Lambayeque, part of La Libertad, the andean forest and inter-andean valleys. It also includes an orchid and cactus collection and an ethnobotanical garden with plants of important cultural use for the population.

Technology transfer to improve health, thermal comfort and security (risk management) in the houses located in zones of cold intertropical high-altitude climate, applied to the high-andean habitat of the Puno region. 2014-2016

by the Earth Center group

The group works on the study, design, implementation and validation of a technology transfer methodology in existing homes that consists in changing the building components to improve security and comfort (moisture control, temperature, ventilation, lighting, healthy living space). The developed concepts underpin the use of local non-polluting renewable energies such as solar radiation, wind and geothermal energy. The researchers suggest the use of local building materials and traditional techniques associated to new earthquake-resistant technologies developed in the PUCP by members of the group. Research funded by CONCYTEC and the PUCP within the framework of the call for proposals for Technology Transfer – 2013.

Yaku Inti Wasi: Integrated design of technologies in renewable energies and natural resources for the functioning of ecological rural housing in the high-andean zones of Peru

by the Innovation for Sustainable Development group (IDI SOS)

Winner of the 2013 Odebrecht Award, consists in the development of a rural housing model based on water efficiency, integrated bioclimatic and ecological design. It collects the rainwater for its use in the kitchen and bathroom. It presents a system made up of a dung-based improved stove that reuses the heat to generate comfort inside the home, and facilitate the guinea pig breeding. It also includes a solar energy system to heat up the water, through a thermo-electrical module, and provide electricity. The construction process highlights a common material in the country, the adobe, and maximizes others as sheep’s wool, round wood and cactus mucilage that can be easily found in the high-andean zones.

Technology implementation for solar drying of coffee and cacao

by the Anampiki group

Winning project of the 2nd Social Responsibility Initiatives Contest for students of the DARS (Academic Direction for Social Responsibility).

The project seeks to develop, together with the native people of the Cushiviani community (Satipo-Junin), a model for a solar drying process to improve the post-harvest quality of the coffee and cacao beans. Several trials were conducted with the participation of the native people until finding the final model, built with the Umaña-Chiricente family. The project was led by students and recent university graduates in anthropology, mechanical engineering, audiovisual communication and industrial design.

Connected with the Amazonas Region Program by the Munay Group

Development of a plan and a platform for sustainable joint collaboration between the Private Conservation Areas (PCA) of the Amazonas Region and the human talent area of Munay. The aim is to promote and support the activities related to the conservation of the species and biodiversity in the Private Conservation Areas through research projects, communication, process improvements, and development of sustainable businesses among other aspects related to the tasks of the PCA.

Training with Fenarep by the Tricyle “communication and development” group

The project aims to contribute to the positive recognition of the social and economic role of the Peruvian recyclers. The project deals with local governments, private and public institutions and the general population to improve the recycler’s quality of life.

AREAS OF SUPPORT TO ACADEMIC TRAINING:

• Training sector: This sector is responsible for organizing and coordinating courses of study, diploma courses, training modules, specialization and advanced specialization courses. Its courses are offered in standard attendance and online modes. The study topics are related to management, legislation, innovation, environmental and territorial analysis. The same courses are offered to the general public, and at request of interested companies and institutions.

Extension courses: Environmental Impact Study, Social Impact Study, Environmental Education I and II, Sustainable Development and Amazonia, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Solid Household Waste Management, Solid Industrial Waste Management, Introduction to Environmental Law, Environmental Management Tools, Legal Aspects, Waste-Water Treatment, among others.

Diploma courses: Environmental Management, Extractive Industries, Monitoring and Sustainable Development (semi-presential course), Education and Communication for the Sustainable Development, Education for the Sustainable Development, Strategic Biodiversity Management, Climate Change and Society, among others.

• Specialized library: is part of the Library System of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. This area specialized in environmental issues is in charge of organizing, processing and safekeeping the bibliographic, press and audiovisual material of the institute. The highlighted topics of the collection are: farming, environmental legislation, environmental education, climate change, ecology, pollution, renewable energies, environmental management, mining industries, disasters, marine environments, among others.

• GIS analysis and remote sensing (basins, land use, planning, impact, among others).

• Territorial and environmental conditioning studies.

• Consultancy in climate change adaptation issues.

• Technical visits for natural and energetic resources assessment.

• Design of ecological hotels and follow-up in energy matters.

• Study of environmental life-cycle assessment of products or services.

• Study on the water footprint of products.

• Development of solid fuels (pellets, briquettes).

• Assessment of the biomass and mineral coal energy properties for their use as fuel.

• Diagnostic of energy use in industrial and service activities.

• Feasibility and monitoring studies for the use of renewable energy in the production and service sector.

• Environmental impact studies and environmental adaptation and management programs.

• Design of preliminary environmental diagnostics and environmental monitoring programs.

• Design of cleaner production projects.

• Equipment and system design for the environmental impact mitigation of industrial and service activities.

• Use of biofuels in the transport sector.

• Prospective study of energy use.

• Environmental impact assessment of Antarctic activities.

• Technical assistance in applied environmental sustainability.

• Design and implementation of qualifying programs for recyclers.

OUTSTANDING SERVICES

Institute for the Sciences of Nature, Territory and Renewable Energies (INTE-PUCP)

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Telephone: 626-2000, Extension: 3060, 4082

Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel

Email: inte@pucp.pe

Website: www.inte.pucp.edu.pe

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