Social Representation of Water and its uses

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  • Oscar E. Navarro Carrascal Universidad René Descartes

Abstract

Water is today an important worldwide political a geostrategic question. Colombia, which is one of the biggest water reserve in the world, supplies with water only fifty percent of its population. Resource and ecosystem’s degradation, pollution, waste, growth of the population and its concentration in urban centers, lack of equity regarding the access to water, are some of the problems preventing the country from a sustainable development. With the objective to given an account of the value granted to water, we proposed a study to identify the social representation of water for a determined Colombian social group. We interviewed 150 students in social sciences from Bogota. The prototypical and category analysis allowed us to set up hypotheses regarding the characteristics of the social representation of water worked out by the group.

Author Biography

Oscar E. Navarro Carrascal, Universidad René Descartes

Doctorant en Psychologic Enviromentale, DEA en Psychologie Sociale et. Enviromentale, Université René Descartes, Paris V; Maitrise en Sciences del’Eductaion,
Université Paris XII Val de Marne; Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla. Pertenece al laboratorio de Psicología Ambiental de la Universidad René Descartes, París V –CNRS, Francia

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