Adaptación metodológica de la evaluación de efectividad de manejo para áreas naturales protegidas del Subsistema de Gobiernos Autónomos Descentralizados. Caso Área Ecológica de Conservación Municipal Siete Iglesias

Abstract

his research work was developed, as a methodological adaptation to evaluate management effectiveness in protected areas of the subsystem of the Autonomous Decentralized Government, in the Municipal Ecological Conservation Area Siete Iglesias, Morona Santiago. Currently, there is a methodology ready, to evaluate effectiveness in protected areas of the subsystem of the Natural Heritage Areas of the State. It is considers some parameters to asses areas within this subsystem. It is necessary, then, to develop a methodological adaptation to establish parameters for assessing municipal areas. A specialized bibliographical analysis has been developed, as well as a method to determine adaptation feasibility, the components of the base methodology have been restructured, field work has been carried out, and a multi-criterion evaluation was applied. Based methodology reached a 88.89% feasibility adaptation, a tool was designed and it was based on evaluation aspects, by applying this tool in the protected área, its functionality was proved. Finaly, the methodological adaptation was validated when getting a 82.88 % in approval level. As a conclusión, a methodological adaptation has been developed according to the real situation of the areas of the subsystem of Autonomous Decentralized Government. It is recommended that this tool be applied, with the corresponding technical support of specialists in the area.