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SUMMARY

he Environmental Impact sociocultural dimensions. Taking this
Studies -EIA- in Colombia, and reading in deep consideration, some
Tin particular the Environmental criteria and indicators are settled down
Impact Assessments still hold difficulties to identify environmental impacts and
to incorporate some perspectives of to consider their significance, with
analyses of the territory, that allow an support of the vulnerability concept.
approximation to the real significance The methodological frame is applied to
of the environmental impacts that the the mining conflict in Marmato, Caldas
projects, works and human activities as a way to approach the valuation of its
generate on the territorial framework. impacts. It is concluded that assuming
In most of the cases, the results of the the EIA in a territorial perspective, allows
evaluation depend on the subjective also identify environmental impacts that
criterion of the expert who is in charge usually are ignored in the conventional
to perform this evaluation, without methodologies, and in a similar way,
considering the contributions of consider its intensity or gravity with
the communities possibly affected based on the rich social intersubjectivity.
by the project, to which the use
of methodologies is added, that
although happen to be abundant in
technicalities, ignore the political
relevance of this instrument. Having
in consideration what was previously
mentioned, the present work proposes
a methodological elements to identify
and assess environmental impacts,
being based for it on the conceptual
and instrumental baggage contributed
by the fields of the Ecological and
political Economy, whose main interest
turns around the investigation of the
environmental conflicts caused by the
discorded relations between ecosystem
and culture, relations that are read in
the light of political, economic and

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