LA CONTAMINACIÓN AMBIENTAL - EN EL IMAGINARIO DE LAS COMUNIDADES DE YUCATÁN (MÉXICO)

Abstract

A failed academic work on environmental education led us to a background research in search of answers. The objective was to determine the social imaginary about environmental pollution through the perceptions of people in the communities of the State of Yucatan (Acanceh, Akil, Baca, Cuzama, Kinchil and Sotuta). Under the qualitative method, based on the opinions of the study subjects about environmental pollution. The results show that the majority of the people in the communities far from the big cities do not perceive environmental pollution in their surroundings, neither of air, water, nor soil.

Keywords:  pollution, environment, air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution. Yucatán (México).