Abstract

AGUIRRE OSPINA, YOLANDA; GALLEGO GIRALDO, CARMENZA  and  CANO SANCHEZ, HILDA PATRICIA. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UNDERTAKE INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AND INTER-SECTORIAL ACTIONS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CALDAS. Luna Azul [online]. 2012, n.34, pp.81-100. ISSN 1909-2474.

A methodological approach to undertake inclusive coordinated and inter-institutional actions about climate change in the Caldas Department is presented, establishing as the axis of action the comprehensive risk management associated to such change, directing short, medium and long term actions about the five alerts uncovered through the qualitative research about the social imaginary people from Caldas have about it, categorized as critical variables, dependent variables, and independent variables through a perceptual structural systemic analysis This article aims to give expression to the voice of the community and make explicit the determination and compromise of different institutions in the Department of Caldas to establish synergies according to their potentialities so that it can be possible to advance in the knowledge of the effects produced by this phenomenon in our region. Likewise, this text seeks to contribute in an organized and effective manner to comprehensive risk management associated with climate change in our Department, working permanently in prevention, mitigation, and adaptation for the preservation of our ecosystems and for sustainable development.

Keywords : Comprehensive Risk management; critical variables; dependent variables; independent variables; perceptual structural systemic analysis.

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