Propuesta metodológica para la construcción de la prospectiva y zonificación ambiental en zonas costeras con presencia de minorías étnicas, municipio de Bajo Baudó, departamento del Chocó

Abstract

Prospective and zoning it`s a phase of the territorial planning that translate in decision making about activities to implement in the territory for an effective management, to ensure this efficiency, the active participation of the local community is necessary during its elaboration; based on this premise, a methodological proposal was designed for its construction in coastal areas with the presence of ethnic minorities, in the municipality of Bajo Baudó, department of Chocó, under the jurisdiction of the Regional District of Integrated Management (DRMI) - Mangrove charm of the Bajo Baudó (EMBB), area enabled by black communities that exercises the collective propriety of the earth under a legal figure denominate community council, intern maxim authority. The methodological proposal is of the applied type, given its application is the improvement of participation and the empowerment of the coastal zone management processes, by the ethnic minorities settled there. The construction of this proposal is based on the ecosystem approach and participatory action research (IAP) methodology, making it possible, on the one hand, to have an integral view of the coastal zone and on the other, to conceive black communities “as subjects of rights and development actors ”; it contemplates six phases namely: 1) A preparatory phase in which a review and documentary analysis was developed, 2) Preparation of workshops with the community, 3) Development of workshops, where the aspects to be contemplated in the proposal were discussed and arranged; field trips were also carried out for the validation of biophysical information, 4) the construction of the methodological proposal based on the documentary information and that collected in the community workshops, 5) socialization of the methodological proposal with the community councils and 6) that It consists of the construction of the prospective phase and environmental zoning for the study area. This research is expected to transcend the area of study, because the claim is that it can be applied in any Colombian coastal area with the presence of ethnic minorities, adapting it to particularities and local dynamics.