SUPERANDO LIMITACIONES COMUNITARIAS PARA CONSERVAR UN PAISAJE COSTERO: UNA INTERPRETACIÓN DESDE LA TEORÍA DE LA AGENCIA HUMANA
Abstract
In light of the theory of human agency, eight low-income rural communities are studied that inhabit a coastal landscape that presents various signs of socio-ecological deterioration, largely caused by the subsistence activities of its inhabitants. The methodology followed in this work included the use of satellite images, interviews with the most experienced inhabitants, analysis of community meetings and direct measurements of ecological and biogeophysical parameters. The results indicate that the agency of the residents has begun to change thanks to the collective work actions that they have been carrying out recently in order to find solutions to a common problem: the massive mortality of fish in an aquatic system of the landscape where they live. But the progress detected so far could stagnate or disappear without new stimuli or support for the residents of this area. The importance of documenting this experience lies in its potential usefulness to help those communities that for years have been subsisting in a poverty trap and that live in socio-ecological environments with underdeveloped external and community structures that tend to restrict human agency.
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