Análisis documental de la gestión del riesgo de incendios forestales o de vegetación y actividades de educación ambiental en el departamento del valle del cauca

Abstract

Currently, there is a global environmental and ecological crisis, associated, between different factors by the global climate change, directly related to global warming and atmospheric pollution associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This alterations produce open burning and vegetation fires or vegetation or flora fires (generically called forest fires), which usually, indirectly and directly, degrade air, water, soil, flora, fauna, biodiversity and in general land biomes and ecosystems, configuring itself into an almost permanent risk and a recurring disaster, associated with various human activities, in most cases. Worldwide it is known that the risk of incidence of these forest fires can be of natural origin, it is also known that in clearly intertropical or equatorial climatic and environmental conditions, such as Colombia and Valle del Cauca, it is almost impossible that their origin is of this type; for this reason, based on existing data, it is estimated that, in about 95% or more of the cases of registered forest fires, the origins are associated with involuntary human activities or activities of socio-natural origin, directly anthropogenic or unintentional and scarcely deliberate. Therefore, from the environmental and disaster risk management, it is considered that by transforming behaviors, daily behaviors or changing attitudes of people and communities in their environment, it is possible to avoid or prevent this type of fire, for what environmental education stands as one of the best ways and perhaps the only viable one, that manages to avoid or prevent it, without relegating other complementary activities such as care, control and extinction, as well as the restoration and recovery of areas affected by them. Therefore, some actions and activities of environmental education are described, undertaken by the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Valle del Cauca, CVC, as the environmental authority of the department and subsidiary of disaster risk management in its jurisdiction, aimed at advancing in avoiding, prevent and reduce or mitigate the negative impact of forest fires, for which it constitutes a descriptive and qualitative basic research, which can contribute to the development of academic and investigative work little known in this environment and basic to the expansion and deepening the knowledge of this type of risk, as a relevant problem and in order to contribute to sustainable development in municipalities with some level of threat, vulnerability or risk of forest fires in the department of Valle del Cauca and in Colombia