Abstract

espanolLas agendas ambientales actualmente promueven la aplicacion de indicadores que posibiliten el resguardo de los ecosistemas naturales dentro de estandares de vida sostenible. Entre los actores que favorecen la aplicacion de indicadores de sostenibilidad ambiental se encuentran las universidades, la cual han asumido un rol importante, no solo como productoras y contenedoras de conocimiento cientifico y tecnologico, sino tambien en el reconocimiento de su capital natural y el uso equilibrado de los servicios ambientales para el desenvolvimiento de sus funciones. En este sentido, el trabajo tiene por objeto la realizacion de una evaluacion a traves de la utilizacion del indicador de la Huella Ecologica en el Campus Universitario de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Su aplicacion tiene como proposito estudiar un sistema ambiental acotado para determinar como la prestacion de un servicio puede darse sin ser subvencionado por un deficit ecologico. La metodologia posibilita evaluar el campus universitario como un sistema abierto, analizando los componentes que emiten carbono a traves del consumo de agua, energia electrica, movilidad, papel, construccion y generacion de residuos, asi como la cuantificacion de la vegetacion para la fijacion y captura de carbono. Al aplicar la metodologia obtenemos los valores totales de emision y fijacion de carbono en promedio por el numero de estudiante. Como resultado de la investigacion para el 2011-2012 (datos mas vigente disponibles) el Campus Universitario de la UCV necesitaria una extension de 2.012,85 de hectareas (ha) de bosque para asimilar las emisiones de carbono, obteniendo una Huella Ecologica de 0,030 ha/estudiante/ano. EnglishThe environmental agendas currently promote the application of indicators that enable the conservation of natural ecosystems within sustainable living standards. The universities are part of the actors in favor of the application of environmental sustainability indicators and have assumed an important role, not only as producers and owners of scientific and technological knowledge, but also in the recognition of their natural resources and the balanced use of environmental services for the development of their functions. In this sense, the objective of this work is to carry out an evaluation through the use of the Carbon Footprint indicator, in the University Campus of Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Its application aims to study an environmental system to determine how the provision of a service can occur without being subsidized by an ecological deficit. The methodology makes it possible to evaluate the university campus as an open system analyzing the components that emit carbon through the consumption of water, electric power, mobility, paper, construction and generation of waste, as well as quantification of vegetation for carbon fixation and capture. When applying the methodology the total values of carbon emission and fixation on average by the number of students were obtained. As a result of the research, for 2011- 2012 (most current data available) the UCV campus needed an extension of 2,012.85 hectares (ha) of forest to assimilate carbon emissions, obtaining a Carbon Footprint of 0.030 ha / Student / year.

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