Valoración de la calidad del agua a partir de la visión de agentes sociales en la cuenca hidrográfica del río Dagua

• Main Authors: Anderson Guillermo Rojas Ortiz, Lizeth Patricia Campo Ramirez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Valle 2018-12-01
• Series: Entorno Geografico
• Subjects: water quality; society-nature re-lationship; watershed; qualitative assessment
• Online Access: http://revistas.univalle.edu.co/index.php/entornogeografico/article/view/7148/9972

Starting from the anthropocentric thinking of the society-nature relationship, it seeks to establish the visión that have the so-cial agents of the watershed of the river Dagua about the affectations produced by productive activities of extractive type and services in water quality. Therefore, it was done a qual-itative methodology, which consisted first in identifying the representative productive activities in the watershed and afterward, as-sess the affectations of these activities in wa-ter quality based don of the vision of social agents. Obtaining the following results: the identification of negative and positive actions that affect the quality of wáter, the perception of water quality by different social agents and an approximation about the stance that social agents have in front of a natural environment.