From Environmental Degradation to Buen Vivir

College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Storrs

Environment, Environmental Justice, and Sustainability

Emerging from the Latin American tradition of participatory action research (PAR), this collaborative project aims to identify the core aspects of a transitional design from cattle-ranching to a sustainable economy that builds harmony between humans and nature in the intercultural community of El Manantial, Colombian southwest region in the Amazon piedmont. We want to examine this transitional design's environmental, cultural, economic, and political aspects. We intend to implement gardening of medicinal plants practices and conservation of water sources through a PAR process that analyzes activities while supporting community efforts to recover and protect biodiversity within an ecotourism initiative.

Contact: Cesar Abadia

Email: cesar.abadia@uconn.edu

Keywords: Community-Based, Decolonial, Intercultural, Human-Nature, environment

Community Partners: El Manantial Community, Red SaludPaz, Humboldt Institute, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de la Amazonia

Grant Funded Agency: UConn internal funds

Scope: International

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