Manual para el Cumplimiento de la Normativa Ambiental de las Actividades Económicas Aledañas a la Ciénaga el Palmar como Estrategia de Autogestión y Educación Ambiental para el Uso Sostenible del Recurso Hídrico

Abstract

The Palmar swamp located in the municipality of Caucasia-Antioquia, has suffered environmental deterioration despite the environmental services offered by this ecosystem, this generated mainly by the increase in population and the development of economic activities without compliance with environmental legislation due to their ignorance and lack of understanding due to the difficult access to information and the costs associated with its implementation due to the payment of intermediaries and/or consultants.

For this reason, a manual is formulated as a self-management strategy and environmental education for the sustainable use of water resources, for which primary and secondary information is used based on the identification of economic activities through field trips to determine and evaluate the negative environmental impacts caused to this body of water, where the need to process Environmental Permits before the competent Environmental Authority was obtained, as well as to carry out the proper management of solid waste, for which an Environmental Legal Framework is established as base of the structuring of the pedagogical tool that consolidates all the documentation and procedures in a clear and easily accessible way for all the actors of the territory in order to facilitate compliance with the Environmental Regulations of the surrounding economic activities in the Ciénaga El Palmar, which can also be used in the jurisdiction of CORANTIOQUIA, since, from the prevention and mitigation of negative environmental impacts through the implementation of environmental management measures framed in legal compliance, it contributes to the conservation of water heritage.

KEY WORDS: Self-management, environmental regulations, pedagogical tool, sustainable use of water resources.