Environmental governance in south-central Caldas, a reflection on public policy for risk management
Environmental governance in south-central Caldas, a reflection on public policy for risk management

Author(s): Jaime Mejía Gutiérrez
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: institutions; environment; governance; consensus; participation; climate change
Summary/Abstract: This article on environmental governance in the Colombian territory contributes to the preservation of life, in a moment of pandemic and health threat by a virus that shapes a new way of coexistence. Governance in terms of the implementation of environmental public policies must be concerned with the preservation of air, water, and healthy food. Governance in today’s sense involves citizen participation and public eligibility. In the case of the southern center of Caldas, especially in what is considered as a future metropolitan area, it is essential to establish strategies for the maintenance of watersheds, to emphasize reforestation projects, to measure the climate as an instance of scientific understanding of climate change, to mitigate, adapt and resolve disaster management, associated with the phenomena of El Niño, La Niña, and the notorious instabilities of the hillside soils. Constructive conflict must prevail in the agreements of actors and their interests. Public institutions, private companies, citizen organizations must have their say in the new deal. In today’s world, as a central element in the management of development, the construction of consensus based on the public eligibility of the constitutional norm that directs the social contract needs to be worked on.

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