CAPITAL SOCIAL DE LA COMUNIDAD DE TIMAR, REGIÓN DE ARICA Y PARINACOTA, COMO RECURSO TERRITORIAL PARA LA ADAPTACIÓN ANTE PERTURBACIONES AMBIENTALES

Abstract

A participatory investigation was carried out in the locality of Timar, the rural area of high pampa in the Atacama Desert of the Region of Arica and Parinacota in the extreme north of Chile, it is considered the environmental vulnerability that owns the locality and its community forms of answers, theoretically framed in the concept of social capital. The results show that there is a high social capital composed of the trust relationships between the rural residents and the urban migrants, who function as a territorial resource for the response to the disturbances of the socio-environmental system.