Social Practices, Environmental Service and Climate Change: Axiology of the Human and Non-Human in the Cerros Orientales of Bogotá

Abstract

The Cerros Orientales represent an important symbolic reference and one of the main ecological structures of Bogotá D.C. Its environmental history in the twentieth century has been characterized by a progressive overflow of social demand in relation to the natural supply against which public policy has tried to respond with actions of environmental management of the territory. With the aim of critically rethinking the idea of environmental service and cultural heritage, based on empirical data and a retrospective of the territorial configurations of this urban edge, internal, external and counter-trend dynamics are recognized as to the need to implement measures for the climate change. It is concluded that the ways of conceiving and valuing the Cerros Orientales need an expanded axiology, which renews social practices, overcoming the man-nature ambivalence that characterizes the current processes of patrimonialization.