Abstract

CARDENAS AGUDELO, María Fernanda. Socio-environmental Inequality: An Approach to the Case of the Department of Antioquia at Municipal Scale. Rev. Guillermo Ockham [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.1, pp.131-146.  Epub Jan 26, 2023. ISSN 1794-192X.  https://doi.org/10.21500/22563202.5686.

The separation between society and nature is visibly reflected in the spatial expression of socio-environmental phenomena. Territories, in general, have been specializing their economic base, either because of planned strategies or due to dynamics that follow logics of use and appropriation of nature, generating socio-environmental inequalities. This exercise explores the spatial relationship between the prevalent conditions of multidimensional poverty, and land cover associated with conservation and agricultural production. This relationship seeks to express the differentiation between municipalities with better socioeconomic conditions and those that partially support their sustainability, as they provide ecosystem goods and services, taking the department of Antioquia as a case study. The relationship between socio-environmental variables is evaluated by means of spatial correlation analysis. The results indicate that it is possible to spatially differentiate the municipalities providing environmental services and those with the best average socioeconomic conditions, a difference that is maintained in the evaluated period (2005-2017). However, the resulting spatial correlation indexes (Moran Index) are closer to zero than to one, indicating randomness in their distribution. These indexes tend to move away from zero in the evaluated period, which could be interpreted as an accentuation of the spatial separation between the areas with less poverty and the more natural or more agrarian areas. In conclusion, we reflect on the need to implement measures to close gaps and promote equity and social and environmental justice.

Keywords : services; ecosystems; environment; effects of human activities; social inequality; ecological economy; environmental planning; rural area; ecological region; environmental development.

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