Communitarian biodigester: psychosocial and environmental repercussion in the community of Pueblo Nuevo in II Frente Municipality

Authors

  • David Dainer Matos-Mendoza Universidad de Granma, Bayamo, Granma
  • María de la Caridad Ramírez-Peña Universidad de Granma, Bayamo, Granma
  • Ángela Caballero-Batista Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba

Keywords:

communitarian biodigester, environmental consciousness, environmental psychology.

Abstract

The present research was made in the community of Pueblo Nuevo in II Frente Municipality, in Santiago de Cuba Province, with the objective to characterize the psychosocial and environmental repercussion that had the construction of a communitarian biodigester in their habitants. We depart from the theoretical perspectives of the Environmental Psychology, which base is the Historical-Cultural Approach. It was used the configurational methodology and the ethno-methodological method. The techniques employed were the observation and the half-structured interview. The main results point out that the construction of the biodigester influences positively in the transformation of the communitarian’s environmental consciousness, because they began to manifest behaviors and attitudes in function of taking care of the environment. Also it was reached a major risk perception related with the human actions that damage the environment, such as the improvement of the communitarian’s quality of life.

Published

2017-09-29

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