Análisis de los elementos de biodiversidad, conservación y áreas protegidas presentes enlos Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial de los cantones de la provincia de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: Land Management Plans are of vital importance. These technical documents define, among other things, all the potentialities and limitations that a territory may have, facilitating decision making in terms of management processes and the management of the natural resources they contain. However, these decisions can be affected when the information contained in these documents is erroneous, outdated or does not have a solid scientific basis. The present work was oriented to determine inconsistencies in the PDOT of the province of Loja in biodiversity and conservation issues, for this purpose a protocol of information gathering was structured where it was possible to evidence the shortcomings of these documents such as the absenceof flora and fauna lists, lack of citations and bibliography, and then, based on the identificationof these limitations, guidelines were established to try to solve this problem.