Conciencia ambiental en escuelas y organizaciones en territorios rurales en crisis hídrica de la Provincia de Petorca, Chile
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https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol24-Issue3-fulltext-3503Keywords:
community-based organizations, environmental awareness, rural education, socio-environmental crisisAbstract
Petorca province in Chile highlights the devastating effects of climate change, which has been exacerbated in recent decades by the expansion of the agro-export and mining industries. Based on a qualitative approach, six semi-structured sedentary interviews and two walking interviews were conducted with two schools and two local rural organizations, and their discourses were then analyzed thematically based on their cognitive, affective, dispositional, and behavioral dimensions of environmental awareness (EA). Findings show that autobiographical experiences and their affective dimension are structural elements in the adaptive dispositions to cope with water scarcity in the territory, much more so than purely cognitive aspects. It was concluded that the EA analyzed in the interviewees manifests the intersection of experiential and affective elements, which add a meaning as profound as it is complex to the dispositions and actions of the communities in order to cope with the socio-environmental crisis.
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