Análisis del nivel de entendimiento y acciones de los municipios de Durán y Samborondón frente al cambio climático

Abstract

This paper analyzes the level of knowledge, perception of risk, organizational and political support, behavior of officials and adaptation and mitigation actions carried out by the Autonomous Decentralized Governments of Samborondón and Durán. With a cross-sectional quantitative approach, two surveys were used aimed at the officers and environmental directors of the aforementioned institutions that were selected for convenience, and crossed tables were used to analyze the data. Based on the results obtained, it is established that officials recognize climate change, its human causality and that it will affect their community, but they do not act on that basis, since their individual actions are based on the economic benefit they obtain. Adaptation and mitigation actions are focused on specific environmental issues and highlight a lack of budget or support from the central government for a greater approach.