Acciones para la gestión de los incendios forestales dentro del marco del Plan Municipal para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres en el municipio de San José del Guaviare

Abstract

This document seeks to analyze the components that make up the Municipal Disaster Risk Management Plan (PMGRD), within the framework of the document Municipal Guide for Risk Management provided by the Special Administrative Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, UAEGRD). (UAEGRD), a series of management particularities are evidenced, more from the negative aspect than from the positive one, highlighting the few or The few or insignificant measures for the prevention of forest fires by the Municipal Administration of San José de Guaviare, in favor of promoting the development and organization of the territory through local needs and knowledge, such as the use and not prohibition of fire as a tool or mechanism for agricultural activity, stand out. From the above and from the primary information obtained directly from the community, through open question surveys in order to know the effects, causes and possible solutions to the fires, added to the technical knowledge developed around the world in the management of forest fires, as a result of this research work, the authors present a base of actions aimed at the prevention of forest fires. As results of this research work, based on the primary information collected from the current knowledge of the rural and urban community of San José del Guaviare, on the prevention of forest fires, the project profiles designed under the guidelines of the Guiding Document for the formulation of the Municipal Risk Management Plan are presented, which are the result of the prioritization of problems. The programs proposed according to the current problems are “participatory, ecological and green business economy”, where one of its actions is the promotion of agroforestry and silvopastoral projects, the second program is focused on “Restoration and ecological recovery” where its main actions are to ensure connectivity through recovery and restoration, accompanied by judicial and police actions. The third program refers to “conservation and sustainable use”, where its main projects are the agricultural burn management program, strengthening the installed capacity of first responders, and last but not least, the “environmental governance” program is proposed, which is focused on the action of articulating through education and environmental awareness the municipal government, the urban and rural population and the different actors around the management of forest fires in the municipality of San José del Guaviare.