Abstract

LATIF OLMOS, Soraya  and  NINO ARTEAGA, Yesid. THE ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGES AS A THEORETICAL IMPULSE TO REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROJECTS. CASE STUDY: THE ECOTOURISM POTENTIALITIES OF IPIALES CITY, COLOMBIA. Tend. [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.2, pp.167-190. ISSN 0124-8693.  https://doi.org/10.22267/rtend.202102.146.

This reflection article want to present a critical interpretation about the meaning of construction of economic entrepreneurship projects in vulnerable sectors of the municipality of Ipiales. The article develops from a qualitative research in which it is intended to attach at local population with the ecotourism potentialities in changing economies, in competitive and devastating environments of the natural ecosystem, under the premise that options can be found that can balance situations related to environmental depredation and with the improvement of the quality of life of people who work in rural settings. Thence, this article shows a context of ecotourism from the regional economy, then make a reflection about the economic system from the ecologies of knowledges and finally the practical problem and some suggestes within the design and consolidation of projects that seek community participation instead of the appropriation of the ecosystem by the capitalist rationality.

JEL: O15; Q01; Q27; Q57; R11

Keywords : ecotourism; alternative human development; ecologies of knowledges; epistemological diversity; alternative thinking..

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