Analysis of possible conflicts among agricultural, rural, urban and environmental uses of soil

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the contrast of the results obtained in the research entitled “Methodological alternatives for the determination of the ecological flow as a strategy for a sustainable development in surface water sources” developed in 2008 by the PROGASP group of  the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and the article “Analysis of projection of water demand for agricultural use in a sector of the Sabana de Bogotá” (Castro and Agualimpia, 2015). Through a comparative analysis between scales, Hydro-Conductive Soils, Hydro- Conductive Soils,which fulfill the ecosystem function of allowing surface water flow to maintain environmental flows and generate an ecological balance in a flat sector of the municipalities of Cota, Tabio and Tenjo, were identified. It explores the application of the norms of use applied within rural and urban terroritorial legal framework and use schemes explored according to two institutional focuses that normally decide agricultural and environmental use. At the moment the decision is made to change from the use of agricultural soil to urban soil as stipulated in Decree 3600 of 2007. This Decree specifically refers to properties that classify in agrological classes higher than 4. These properties comply with the ecosystem service to regulate the water’s subsurface; as it is not explicit about how to proceed with these lands, there is a possibility that in this territory there will be environmental conflicts extending to the whole of the Sabana of Bogota