Aporte a la construcción de comunidades sostenibles. Un modelo para analizar su sostenibilidad
(English) This thesis developed an understanding of what makes a community sustainable, its particular characteristics, the values it shares, its way of life and its interaction with natural systems. It categorized the concept of sustainable communities as a complex and adaptive socio-ecological sys...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/692792 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/692792 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible 502 |
| Sumario: | (English) This thesis developed an understanding of what makes a community sustainable, its particular characteristics, the values it shares, its way of life and its interaction with natural systems. It categorized the concept of sustainable communities as a complex and adaptive socio-ecological system, with characteristics of socio-ecological resilience. The study focused on the structural and functional factors or elements that directly and indirectly condition and influence the life of people and the social systems that constitute them. Thesis addressed a real case study represented in the rural dairy community of Monquentiva in the Páramo de Guatavita, Colombia, as an empirical element on which the research was built. The main objective was to establish the characteristics of a theoretical model for analyzing the sustainability of a community that will shape the behavior of the social-ecological system and the factors that can affect its sustainability. By applying systems theory, the rural community was studied as a complex and adaptive socio-ecological system, emphasizing the interactions between human and non-human actors (ecological entities) and not between variables or systems (sociological phenomena). Two methodological proposals were adapted to develop the doctoral research, the first being the prospective analysis and the second the action situation framework. The action situations framework and its underlying conceptualization of SES were structured based on understanding SES resilience thinking as complex and tightly intertwined adaptive systems. The information obtained with the active participation of community stakeholders at different levels of the system was graphically represented in a theoretical model to account for the characteristics that condition the sustainability or unsustainability of the system, its social-ecological resilience, the coordination among the system of stakeholders, and the responses assumed to face emerging phenomena that can lead the community to either adapt or transform. It was concluded that the model is appropriate to describe and analyze the organization and functioning of the system of actors of the SSE dairy cattle community of Monquentiva and its resilience characteristics such as modularity, diversity, feedback mechanisms, efficiency and resources that favor social-ecological resilience. The model provides information about the current context of the community and their main productive economic activities, helps to know where to target interventions and build resilience. It should be seen as a contribution to the observation of resilient socio-ecological systems, has the potential to contribute to broader sustainability models for rural SSE, and can inform strategic adaptation planning in the face of different shocks and socio-ecological dynamics specific to rural spaces. |
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