Environmental evaluation associated to community close Higher Education Institution in Cartagena. Community Involvement Approach

Abstract

Environmental Education projects should be included transversally in educational institutions from the school to University, just as responsibility for the environment must be projected from academia and especially from higher education institutions to Local and / or regional communities; Since it is pertinent that in environmental matters contextualized problems are evaluated and it is the communities themselves that possess primary information of the environmental aspects with which they coexist. The objective of the project was to identify the environmental problems associated with the community surrounding the Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco Cartagena, based on a methodology of community participation, in which the community contributed its historical knowledge of the environmental aspects in the area, additional Compared the information obtained with an earlier study of the Cartagena Environmental Management project. As main results are evidenced, the environmental aspects identified as significant of negative character: noise, inadequate solid waste management and lack of afforestation.