Asentamientos precarios en el enclave subxerofítico de la vereda Panamá, Soacha: Un caso de injusticia ambiental

Abstract

This document describes the situation of slums settlements on the outskirts of Soacha, over the subxerophytic enclave. Soacha is a municipality that presents a pattern of urban growth in the peripheries of the urban core lacking planning or legal control that contemplates the needs of the vulnerable population, and in many occasions these marginalized realities go unnoticed by the rest of society. Since 2015, informal settlements have been detected by satellite in the coverage of the subxerophytic enclave of the Panama Village, and consequently this important ecosystem has been deteriorating over the years due to the anthropic activity of impoverished communities that have had to solve their housing needs through informal settlements. Through a systematic review of the literature, semi-structured interviews, structured observation and a search for information in the field, the main sanitary characteristics of the territory are determined in order to contrast this information with the concepts of environmental justice as a point of enunciation of the analysis. The analysis explains the socio-sanitary phenomena through the concepts of environmental justice. It is determined that there is environmental injustice in the territory where large-scale mining is present, there is state abandonment and no projection of policies towards the social crisis experienced in the cordon of misery.