Incidence of the Present Tendencies of Occupation and Land Use, in the Generation of Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Populated Center of the Chucuní village in Ibagué, Tolima

Abstract

Recently, Rural territories have undergone considerable changes in their ways of occupying and using land due to urban expansion to develop new rural housing schemes, a situation that leads to economic, social, physical-spatial and environmental transformations of the rural landscape. This is the case of the populated center of the Chucuní village in Ibagué–Tolima, which in the last ten years has presented a significant process of territorial transformation. In the present study, the changes in land use and occupation in the zone are addressed, establishing multiple causes that have given rise to the generation of socio-environmental conflicts. For this, a multitemporal comparative analysis was carried out between 2009 and 2019 of the property structure, the growth of the urban area, the biological coverage of the soil and the identification of environmental conflicts in light of the regulatory framework of territorial ordering.