Estrategias para un desarrollo sostenible del corregimiento de Berlín (Santander), basado en el concepto de permacultura

Abstract

The corregimiento of Berlin, located on the fragile ecosystem of the páramo of the same name, presents an unfavorable model of occupation of the territory, because of unsustainable agricultural practices and environmental impacts generated by the human settlements present there. These are adverse situations, common to the country's paramunos complexes, faced today with ineffective palliatives, such as inappropriate reforestation measures and land restrictions. Therefore, it becomes a duty to study this territory carefully in order to generate sustainable strategies aimed at consolidating a territorial planning model based on a sustainable correspondence between the population and fragile ecosystems present there: the moors. The present investigation therefore seeks, initially to identify the determining factors of the environmental crisis that the corregimiento of Berlin is going through today, in order to find alternative solutions to this problem. The problem has been addressed from the broad concept of permaculture that is based on the observation of natural systems, knowledge of traditional design systems and modern technological knowledge for the construction of sustainable ecological environments. It is planned then to formulate strategies aimed at the consolidation of ecological systems, economically viable, capable of satisfying their own needs, friendly to the environment and contributing to the sustainable development of the inhabited core of the corregimiento of Berlin.