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Retrospectiva y reflexiones aproximadas acerca de la degradación del medio ambiente

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Este documento tiene como propósito describir las posturas teóricas y las divergencias surgidas entre los economistas neoclásicos y de aquellos economistas que hallaron en la física un soporte mucho más consistente para su teorización, al trasladar a su campo de estudios la segunda ley de la termodinámica – la ley de la entropía, para apoyar sus razonamientos en cuanto a la disipación de la energía y la materia en el medioambiente, con el fin de demostrar que los economistas convencionales al aplicar el modelo circular producción-mercado-consumo y la sustitución de capital, consideraron dentro de su modelo el agotamiento de los recursos naturales. De esta manera han sido coparticipes con la degradación y contaminación medioambientales. Por estas razones se consideró oportuno hacer notar, desde una mirada sistémica, cómo es posible conciliar a las dos corrientes de pensamiento enfrentadas, al pensar la situación medioambiental como una relación sistema/entorno. Se efectúo para ello, un rastreo a partir de los anos 70 sobre la preocupación de las instituciones internacionales y las organizaciones, y de la sociedad civil en general, por la búsqueda de alternativas de solución para afrontar la crisis del medio ambiente contemporáneo; planteándose así, las nociones de sostenibilidad (sustentabilidad) y las corrientes creadas a partir de esta categoría: la sostenibilidad fuerte y la débil. Entendiendo que el fomento de la responsabilidad social y ambiental corporativas trajo consigo dispositivos que se orientan a observar, controlar, costear e intervenir las acciones de las organizaciones al impactar estas el medio ambiente como lo son: la auditoría ambiental y la contabilidad ambiental. ****** This document is to describe the theoretical positions and disagreement among neoclassical economists and economists those found in physics much more consistent support for theorizing, to move his field of study to the second law of thermodynamics - the law of entropy, to support their arguments in terms of the dissipation of energy and matter in the environment, in order to show that conventional economists to apply the circular pattern-market production-consumption and capital replacement, considered in their model the depletion of natural resources. In this way have been partakers with environmental degradation and pollution. For these reasons it was considered appropriate to note, from a systemic perspective, how is it possible to reconcile the two opposing schools of thought, thinking about the environmental situation as a relationship system / environment. For it was effected, a crawl from the 70s to the concern of international institutions and organizations, and civil society in general, by the search for alternative solutions to address the contemporary environment crisis, considering notions of sustainability and currents created from this category: the strong and weak sustainability. Understanding that the promotion of corporate social and environmental responsibility brought with devices that are directed to observe, monitor, and intervene afford actions impact these organizations to the environment such as: environmental auditing and environmental accounting.

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  • Nelson Álvarez Marín, 2013. "Retrospectiva y reflexiones aproximadas acerca de la degradación del medio ambiente," Dimensión Empresarial, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, November.
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