Abstract

TORRES, María Cristina  and  NARANJO, Efraín. Constraints to the Application of Social Technology for the Protection of páramo. Estudios de la Gestión [online]. 2024, n.16, e2. ISSN 2661-6513.  https://doi.org/10.32719/25506641.2024.16.2.

Social technology is based around three axes: community, environmental protection and economic solidarity. The páramo itself is a vital ecosystem for water regulation as it is the source of water supplies for human consumption and performance of economic activities. This article intends to identify the limitations to apply social technology to the protection of the páramo in the central highlands of Ecuador, where processes of self-management, empowerment, participation, agreement-making, cooperation and pursuit for collective welfare have been observed. The methodology is quantitative within the framework of discourse analysis. The results show that, in order to reach a large agreement for the protection and recovery of the páramo, involving all of the communities settled in the area, it is necessary to overcome limitations mostly related to the lacking attention by the government in regards to basic utilities, management plans for conservation areas and studies for economic alternatives allowing communities to subsist in the lower zones, compromising not to extend their agricultural borders further into the highlands. This information helps strengthen natural resource management from a new perspective.

Keywords : Q25 Renewable resources and conservation-water; social technology; páramo; sustainable development; economic alternative; solidarity.

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