Caracterización socioeconómica de la parroquia Doctor Miguel Egas Cabezas desde el enfoque del metabolismo social.

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis characterizes, analyzes, and presents in a holistic manner the different disciplinary perspectives regarding the rural metabolism of indigenous communities from a social metabolism perspective making use of the MultiScale Integrated Assessment of Society and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) methodology. This approach allows for the analysis of the existing metabolic pattern found in the socioeconomic system of the Doctor Miguel Egas Cabezas parish, taking into consideration the technical, economic, social, demographic, and ecological variables between textile productive units. This methodology is complemented with the Rural Livelihoods framework of analysis through the identification and articulation of capital or resources under natural, social, human, physical, and economic categories and the contextual processes whose combination influences and results in distinct life strategies that in turn are related to human wellbeing and the ecological sustainability of the productive units being analyzed. In this manner both frameworks of analysis combine to work in harmony because while the MuSIASEM approach offers a characterization of the metabolic pattern of the society in question and its effect on the metabolism of the surrounding ecosystems, the Rural Livelihoods framework describes the way in which families live and how they are affected in their daily lives.