Abstract

ESCOBAR TORRES, Vivian Constanza  and  PALACIO TAMAYO, Dolly Cristina. Social participation and oak forest conservation: Paipa and Duitama study case. Colomb. for. [online]. 2010, vol.13, n.2, pp.257-273. ISSN 0120-0739.

Social dynamics within social participation is a crucial issue for the accomplishment of forest conservation. In order to contribute to this field, a study of 31 institutional and community organized actors’ cooperative practices, within forest conservation processes in Paipa and Duitama, located at the oak forests conservation corridor Guantiva, La Rusia, Iguaque in Colombia, was made, applying Social Network Analysis (SNA). Particularly, this article inquiry is about models of participation of these actors within the period of 2004-2008, looking at their projects and actions as management practices of forest conservation. The research questions were how social participation is included and understood in the conservation of these oak forests, observing cooperative practices amongst this set of actors, at local level. The results are related with the structural patterns of co-participation established amongst these actors within each other’s projects and actions and the impact of those in the aim of forest conservation at local level, regarding power relations and its impact on forest conservation.

Keywords : social network analysis; forest conservation; social organization.

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