Percepción social de los incendios forestales en el cantón Quito

Abstract

Abstract: Forest fires have become one of the main causes of pollution and environmental deterioration throughout the planet, as a result of human activities. In this sense, the Quito canton in the province of Pichincha -Ecuador, is not exempt from this problem. Reason for which, the present work has as objective to know the citizen conception of the Quito-Ecuador Canton with respect to forest fires. For this, online surveys were applied through theKoboCollect application. The results showed that the population of the canton has general knowledge of what forest fires are and represent, their causes, consequences and the problems they generate both environmental, social and economic. However, they donot know the number of events and areas of vegetation affected. In addition, it is evident that the population has little information about what the authorities are doing for prevention and control, for their part, they are willing to participate in both preventive and corrective actions to mitigate and, above all, avoid the presence of said forest fires.