Identificación y caracterización de los conflictos ambientales que se presentan en la localidad de Kennedy, Bogotá, D.C. 2021

Abstract

Environmental conflicts are the reflection of a series of tensions that arise between two or more groups of people or institutions, which are identified as affected by the occurrence of the environmental deterioration of a natural resource. The Latin American experience has proposed the study of environmental conflicts, at an interconnected level between society, environment, politics, economy... etc., to analyse and understand an environmental conflict, it is vital to understand the context and time in which it takes place, the type of populations and institutions that have a place there, and the prolongation of the conflict. Colombia is not a particular case of study; on the contrary, within its territory, research has been carried out on environmental conflicts in different areas at the national level, involving populations, armed actors, governmental bodies, all of them in scenarios of great social conflict. In them, strategies have been proposed to implement a management more in line with the requirements of the conflict and in some way provide a solution to it. Kennedy is one of the most densely populated localities in the city of Bogotá, however, it has a large Main Ecological Structure-EEP, which serves as support to ensure the coverage and generation of ecosystem goods and services, The joint effort between initiators, generators and regulators has enabled the recovery of severely deteriorated environmental spaces. The investigation of environmental conflicts in the town of Kennedy, is approached from a descriptive qualitative approach, using tools such as bibliographic review, interviews, social and physical cartography and with it, the approach of management strategies. At the same time, the information provided here will be used as a base for the town of Kennedy, in the construction of the District Observatory of Environmental Conflicts-ODCA, which is proposed from the second action line of the Environmental Conflicts, Life and Peace seedling: CaM:ßiØS.