Centro de Desarrollo Ambiental

Abstract

Over the years, Turbo has become one of the most important environmental corridors in Colombia, but its exponential growth has led it to grow in an uncontrolled way and without any kind of planning; Due to its coastal condition, Turbo has based its economy on economic and tourist exchange, which led to an accelerated population growth, being additionally, a municipality devastated by violence, poverty and the lack of opportunities, work, school and education. Health. The few efforts that are made have not been enough to safeguard the well-being of all the inhabitants of Turbo, the lack of job opportunities and education, have led young people and children to leave school and end up working at a very early age, in criminal gangs, thus increasing the index of violence and insecurity that the municipality presents, analyzing this lack of educational infrastructure, has also led to the inhabitants of Turbo and their leaders having obtained little environmental education in the course of their lives, putting in It endangers those ecosystems rich in life that Turbo had. The pollution of the pipes, rivers, the sea, the reduction of the mangrove swamp and the pollution of the streets and public spaces, are some of the daily problems that the Turbeños experience, to face these problems, and understanding their importance in the exponential growth of the municipality and as a tourist and attractive place for visitors from other regions of the country, environmental education is proposed as the engine that transforms environmental life and lives in society, taking up a community that has been greatly affected by those Unconscious acts of its inhabitants, Turbo has ceased to be a municipality of violence and seeks to become a tourist branch, full of culture, art and with a healthy ecosystem connection. The main objective of this proposal is, through strategies for the growth of an environmental culture and education, to ensure the proper use of citizen culture and the optimal quality of environmental resources at different scales throughout the territory, achieving the reducing the environmental pollution gap, social division and improving people’s quality of life.