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Helena Pérez Garcés, Carlos Alberto Zárate Yepes, Sandra Turbay Ceballos
El interés por la protección de la biodiversidad genera conflictos ambientales inéditos, como el que ocurre con los pobladores de los corregimientos de San Sebastián de Palmitas y San Cristóbal, del municipio de Medellín, a raíz de la declaración de un Distrito de Manejo Integrado. Para abordar adecuadamente su tratamiento, se requiere un enfoque que profundice conceptualmente en la naturaleza de los conflictos ambientales, que considere las características de las comunidades campesinas, que analice las interacciones entre las sociedades y su entorno natural y que busque alternativas para que las decisiones en materia de conservación puedan ser compatibles con la preservación de economías rurales sostenibles.
This document is intended to analyze the relationship among development projects which are authorized through environmental licenses in our country, as well as the conflicts related to the basic right to prior consultation indigenous people and all other ethnical groups have; conflicts which have eventually resolved before courts. This article is focused on establishing minimum requirements a prior consultation should have to be implemented and assured with the right indigenous people have to territory, autonomy, participation, and own development. Besides, the article provides an overview about the prior free and informed consent as established by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court through several sentences which finally stated that these topics are so complex that they should be treated from an approach based on the human rights.
