Environmental education as a necessary strategy for planning new regional approaches in the department of Meta

Abstract

The research had as main objective to analyze the evolution of the processes of environmental education in the Department of Meta, emphasis on establishing strategies under the Sustainable Development of new regional planning approaches that can easily be replicated in other sectors. The methodology has been addressed in two stages: the first is related to the literature review and analysis of some instruments of territorial and environmental planning, considering the current legislation in the country for the theme. Subsequently, an inquiry to the case study method, which describes and analyzes a local reality presented in the basin of river Melua arises. Techniques and research tools were applied to a representative sample of the educational community, participatory assessments are generated, spatial analysis, interviews, talking map, social mapping, relationship matrices, SWOT analysis, mapping institutional, public, private actors and groups outside the law. The main findings are that exist for river basin Melua challenges in the field of environmental, associated with the educational level, the synergistic work of the actors, to a greater institutional and state support, integration of strategies that emphasizes the need to incorporate environmental education theme holistically in this territory from government policies; the care and conservation of ecosystem resources, and finally the need to generate citizen participation schemes, deeply linked to the issue of identity and territorial appropriation. The comprehensive analysis of the issue allowed the categorization of developing problems in the area, establishing a network map of relations between actors and jointly contributes to the territorial building from the way environmental education.