Abstract

DELGADO-GARCIA, SANDRA MILENA; TRUJILLO-GONZALEZ, JUAN MANUEL  and  TORRES-MORA, MARCO AURELIO. THE WATER FOOTPRINT AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION STRATEGY FOCUSED ON THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES:: STUDY CONDUCTED WITH RURAL COMMUNITIES FROM VILLAVICENCIO. Luna Azul [online]. 2013, n.36, pp.70-77. ISSN 1909-2474.

According to Tréllez (2002), community-based environmental education is an open field to thought and to constructive action whose individual results can gradually become creative proposals for a different future; in this way, environmental education allows for the flexibility of thoughts, the creation of scenarios, and the development of processes oriented towards change. The purpose of this study is to produce a change in relation to the indirect consumption of water in homes, through environmental education, by means of Action research with participative workshops in which the indirect water footprint for food consumption was calculated. After this calculation, communities showed a noticeable change regarding their consumption of water, developing proposals to improve their relationship with this resource. This environmental education strategy, implemented through the water footprint, has allowed for the communities to begin to appropriate management of water resources and to develop responsibility in the leaders to communicate what has been learned to other members within their respective communities.

Keywords : Environmental education; water footprint; community; perception; action-research.

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