Abstract

The sustainability of the water under the systemic approach becomes a fundamental natural resource for human subsistence and nature preservation. However, in the city of Popayan, Colombia, settlements of residents and companies in the production sector located on the riverbanks have contaminated the water source, due to organic and non-organic residues shedding, becoming a thread to the stability of the system. The present research main objective is to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the water factor for sustainable development from the systemic approach in relation with the population and companies located along the Banks of the Ejido, Molino, and Cauca rivers within the urban area of Popayan city. The research is based on the epistemic model of positivism, the hypothetical deductive method, a type of evaluative research with a mixed approach and a non-experimental design. For this, it was analyzed the institutionality of the water factor, semi-structured interviews were applied to the population under study, non-participatory observation were carried out on the riverbanks, the biological indicators and the physicochemical samples were determined, and the local planning was examined. The results establish that the planning is isolated from the systemic approach, which further exacerbates climate change. The research is the result of the doctoral thesis in Sustainable Development.

Presenters

Rafael Mauricio Padilla Moreno
Docente investigador, Facultad Ciencias Sociales y de la Administración, Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor del Cauca, Cauca, Colombia

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Human Impacts and Responsibility

KEYWORDS

Environmental, Sustainability, Water, Factor, Sustainable, Development, Systemic, Approach, Climate, Change

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