Análisis de la Ordenanza del Sistema de Gestión de Riesgos en el cantón Portoviejo del año 2011 con su correspondiente reformatoria del año 2013 en aplicabilidad al marco del Buen Vivir

Abstract

The present research is the analysis of the 2011´s “Ordenanza del Sistema de Gestión de Riesgos” in Portoviejo city with its 2013 reform, facing the requirements expressed in “El Buen Vivir”. The study of the ordinance will be made, mainly to know the document´s contributions or limitations, its strengths and weaknesses in the management of environmental risks, health and safeness. The research will include thoughts about the distance between the text statements and the practical reality, as a way of contribution with the citizen´s debate. One of them, are the hills that surround the city, the same that kept native vegetation until the 1970 decade, but with the passing time and for agricultural purposes or human settlements, were eliminated. A lot of the actual problems that Portoviejo deal with now, were born there. The “Ordenanza del Sistema de Gestión de Riesgos en el cantón Portoviejo” it´s an instrument called to contribute to the reduction of some of these problems.