La cuenta satélite ambiental como un parámetro de implementación del desarrollo sostenible en Antioquia
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2013-10-26
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá
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Introduction. Colombia designed the pilot project named System of Economic and Environmental Accounts
(COLSCEA, in Spanish) with advisory of UN, aiming to incorporate environmental accounts as satellite accounts,
which are parallel to the traditional ones, but found very complex restrictions and could not establish the
subject in the management performed by its environmental agents. Objective. Understand the process of the
incorporation of the environmental satellite account in the environmental management performed by public
and private agents in the Antioquia province, starting with the agreement to conform the inter institutional
committee of environmental accounts in Colombia, CICA (1992). Materials and methods. Nine not structured
interviews were applied to environmental authorities, public organizations, one private company and one
environmental corporation. The results were processed by the use of the Atlas ti tool. 22 codes were identified
and classified into four categories and “Implementation of the Accounts” was taken as the core category for the
whole case study. Results. The issue is not regarded as a priority in public policies, territorial organizations or
private companies. There is valuable information available in several public organizations, but there is not an entity
in charge of aligning or articulating such information with an integral accounts system, neither in Colombia,
nor in Antioquia. It seems that the relative abundance of natural resources has prevented the implementation of
environmental accounts systems from being regarded as an important thing and also the complexity of the issue
and the methods works as “excuse” to practically send it to oblivion. Conclusion. The issue was disregarded
once the pilot project in Colombia finished.
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, Gestión ambiental, Desarrollo sostenible, Sistema de cuentas económicas y ambientales (colscea), Cuencas satélites, Cuencas hidrográficas