Diseño de un programa piloto de educación ambiental como aporte para el mejoramiento de la gestión de los residuos sólidos en la parroquia urbana Saraguro, y la parroquia rural Sumaypamba, cantón Saraguro, provincia de Loja

Abstract

Environmental education is an essential tool which needs to be present in peoples’s mind and actions when they are in contact with the environment . For this reason, it is crucial to develop an environmental education program for the urban parish “Saraguro” and the rural parish “Sumaypamba” that enables to provide alternatives to solve out environmental problems produced by a poor solid waste management. For the development of this program, it was necessary to make a diagnosis of the current situation concernig the management of solid waste in these areas as well as to know the perception of the inhabitants about the management of solid waste. In order to achieve it, 370 surveys were made in the parish of Saraguro and 315 in Sumaypamba, similary, semi-structured surveys were carried out to the staff of the existing local government at the local and cantonal level. The outcomes showed the keypoints in which the program should be focused on, that were transalated into projects. Furthermore, a strategy of difusion of outcomes, which was obtained with the application of the program, was designed