Percepción del cambio climático, adaptación y estrategias de mitigación de habitantes en la vereda Chorrillos de la localidad de Suba en Bogotá.

Abstract

Perception studies on climate change avail themselves of different research perspectives and will have attached to quantitative, qualitative or mixed work to make phenomenon approaches. In this research, from the qualitative approach and the privilege of findings via the feature emerging categorization of ethnography, it is making the study of perception of people from the Chorrillos village, of Suba in Bogota, a rururban community [RU], that them manifest from climate change and mitigation strategies and adaptation. The research answers the question: ¿What perception hold and what strategies of adaptation and mitigation perform the inhabitants from the village of Chorrillos of Suba in Bogota, addressing climate change as visible phenomenon in their rururban character community? In two methodological phases and three specific objectives of the research they are analyzed, on the one hand, from the target point of the phenomenon, the climatic variables analyzed according to parameters descriptive statistics from data provided by one of the weather stations by the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies [IDEAM] near the village Chorrillos since early 2008; on the other hand, from the subjective point of view of perceptions on climate change and adaptation and mitigation strategies, from data provided by the participants in the investigation and analyzed according to inductive categorization strategies. The results presented were framed in research on "Local responses to global change, analysis from local knowledge on environment and development in urban communities, urban production units and rural belonging to the Capital Region and south of Boyacá" project funded by the Research and Scientific Development Center of the Universidad Distrital and by Dr. Yolanda Teresa Hernández Peña who serves as Director and Advisor academic research.