Sustainable local development of the city of cartagena de indias colombia. 2010-2016 periods

Abstract

The Sustainable Development goals as sustainability goals by 2030, in its objective number 11 called Sustainable Cities, seek to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This research aims to carry out an analysis of the sustainability of the local development of the city of Cartagena Colombia, which allows understanding the dynamics of its management in each of its dimensions. The study is of quantitative cut of documentary and transversal type, supported in secondary sources, indicators of the economic, social, environmental and public management dimensions are studied in the periods 2010 to 2016, under the methodology of the biogram and index of sustainable development. The results graphically show the state of sustainability of the city and an index of sustainable development for the periods studied, highlighting a value of 0.40 considered critical in 2010 to a value of 0.55 in 2016, indicating that the dynamics of Cartagena’s sustainable local development management is unstable in the social, environmental and public management dimension.