Análisis del perfil socioeconómico y ambiental de la comuna las huacas, archipiélago de jambelí

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the socioeconomic and environmental profile of the artisanal capture of conch (Anadara tuberculosa) in the Las Huacas commune located in the Jambelí archipelago of the El Oro province of Ecuador. The objective of the research is to analyze the socioeconomic and environmental profile of the commune based on the indicators of social, economic and environmental dimension. This research obeyed a non-experimental, field and cross-sectional design, which was carried out using a technical sheet of questionnaires applied to the associates. the population was dominated by the male gender (119) over the female (19); Relatively, it represents (14%) the participation of women among the associates. The Chi-square test was applied to determine significance (p <0.05) in the indicators reason for undertaking / need or opportunity and Schooling / average income. It is concluded that there is a dependency relationship between the variables need and opportunity to undertake, while there is no statistical association between the categorical variables level of formal education and income. A relevant data could be evidenced in the environmental indicator that 67.15% of the associates established that they always apply environmental care in the shellfish activity, and 53.63% revealed that they always carry out improvement activities to clean up the environment.