Abstract

MEJIA RESTREPO, Carmen Cecilia. The environmental satellite account as a parameter to implement sustainable development in Antioquia. Rev. P+L [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.1, pp.28-47. ISSN 1909-0455.

Abstract Introduction. Colombia designed the pilot project named System of Economic and Environmental Accounts (COLSCEA, in Spanish) with advisory of UN, aiming to incorporate environmental accounts as satellite accounts, which are parallel to the traditional ones, but found very complex restrictions and could not establish the subject in the management performed by its environmental agents. Objective. Understand the process of the incorporation of the environmental satellite account in the environmental management performed by public and private agents in the Antioquia province, starting with the agreement to conform the inter institutional committee of environmental accounts in Colombia, CICA (1992). Materials and methods. Nine not structured interviews were applied to environmental authorities, public organizations, one private company and one environmental corporation. The results were processed by the use of the Atlas ti tool. 22 codes were identified and classified into four categories and "Implementation of the Accounts" was taken as the core category for the whole case study. Results. The issue is not regarded as a priority in public policies, territorial organizations or private companies. There is valuable information available in several public organizations, but there is not an entity in charge of aligning or articulating such information with an integral accounts system, neither in Colombia, nor in Antioquia. It seems that the relative abundance of natural resources has prevented the implementation of environmental accounts systems from being regarded as an important thing and also the complexity of the issue and the methods works as "excuse" to practically send it to oblivion. Conclusion. The issue was disregarded once the pilot project in Colombia finished.

Keywords : environmental satellite account; sustainable development; environmental management; public and private agents.

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