La mancomunidad como estrategia para un ordenamiento territorial con pertinencia biocultural: estudio de caso de la mancomunidad de El Collay

Abstract

This research has focused on analyzing the role that the Association of Collay has played to contribute to the revaluation and enhancement of the local biocultural elements in each of the Territorial Ordinance Plans of the Municipal ADGs that comprise it (Paute, Gualaceo, El Pan, Sevilla de Oro y Santiago de Méndez) and generate guidelines that allowed territorial development with biocultural identity through participation and empowered proposals that ease the local actors participation and put in worth, safeguard, protection and activation the culture and heritage in this territory.

For the development of this work there was participation of many local actors, among mayors, community leaders, entrepreneur and citizens of the different cantons that make up the Collay Commonwealth that through interviews and in situ visits in their associations; ventures; and territories and territorialities. We got the collection of a large amount of information many information that counteracted with texts and different articles. These provided on the one hand the creation of the base line of local actors and actives through general mapping and also a broader analysis about the local actors and biocultural activities participation between the territorial planning plans that leads the territorial dynamic. Finally we present many guidelines to Planning Territorial process with Biocultural relevance.