Title

Citizen Participation and Shared Social Responsibility as Axes of the Governance of Air Quality in Bogota

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/CASAP54985.2021.9703394

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Publication Title

8th Congreso Colombiano y Conferencia Internacional en Calidad de Aire y Salud Publica, CASAP 2021 - Proceedings

Abstract

Poor air quality is an environmental problem that affects health and generates high social costs. In Colombia, the magnitude of this problem is evidenced in studies carried out by the National Planning Department and the National Institute of Health. The study carried out by the National Planning Department in 2017 on health costs attributable to degradation indicates that these costs amounted to 20.7 billion pesos in 2015, of which 15.4 billion pesos are attributed to pollution of the air in cities, in correspondence with the above, the study of Burden of Environmental Disease in Colombia carried out by the National Institute of Health in 2018, disclosures that the greatest factor of exposure to environmental risk is poor air quality, a factor to which 15,681 deaths were attributed to it in 2016 [3].In accordance with the above, it is relevant to generate air Governance mechanisms, so this work presents the results of the research on Air Quality Governance in Bogota: Identification and construction of enabling elements and proposals. The objective of the research is to identify the mechanisms and instruments that favor the mobilization and participation of the population in the governance of air quality. The study was divided into three phases: In the first phase, the relevant institutions in Bogota were identified associated with air quality and the means of dissemination and information on the state of air quality, and indicators and sources of information such as the Air Quality of Bogota Index (IBOCA) and the Bogota Air Quality Monitoring Network (RMCAB), in the second phase, a perception survey was conducted with 1,581 people and experts in air quality distributed between Bogota and 22 municipalities of the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, collecting information on the perception of air quality, citizen participation, degree of knowledge about indicators, control institutions, ease of access and interpretation of information and dissemination channels in relation to air quality. In the third phase, the econometric estimation approach was used to establish correlations and dependency relationships that would allow the identification of air quality governance mechanisms and instruments.

ISBN

9781665479592

Identifier

85126113558 (Scopus)

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