Numerous technical definitions have been established and are a daily part of the lectures' presentations, expressions whose repetitive use have legitimized paradigms to make technical presentations attractive with the presumable intention of impacting interlocutors, who later disseminate and use as technical support to formulate the objectives of projects supposedly aimed at rural populations that are not explicit in the particular objective of a certain project, turning the objective, according to his writing, into mere intentions focused on a plant, animal or environment.
The reiteration of the paradigms, intrinsically wrong, provoke disturbing interpretations of the purposes and objectives of the projects if they do not contain exactly the indication to whom and what are the benefits for the people and the environment where they live, because individual and habitat, are fundamental criteria for designing projects that seek to improve the individual and collective quality of life of rural communities and that for obvious reasons, are reflected as a result, in a better management of the environmental issue.
In reason, words and expressions such as those analyzed below are perhaps the most used in conferences and other means to disseminate knowledge and establish standards of conduct and penalties by the State, not without discarding the good intention of few speakers, who erroneously by the insistent use of other scholars, have created and promoted a terminology that, over time, have become unacceptable paradigms based on the colloquial premise that "use makes custom", a phrase applied to justify trivial matters and with which It aims to show what should not be done in formulating the objectives of social development projects.
Vo c ac i or n - Fitness
The term vocation comes from the Latin vocare (to call) meaning “a call, it is what inspires us, they are the expressions of our values. It is an internal demand ”, and it is perfected as the inclination of people fundamentally towards something. A second term in question is aptitude, which comes from the Latin aptus, meaning capable for…. and it is defined as the quality that makes an object appropriate for a purpose. "
Aprovechando los vocablos anteriores, se divulgan como conceptos en la educación formal y en la normatividad forestal las expresiones «los suelos tienen vocación para… o los suelos son de vocación…”, envolviendo conceptualmente en estas expresiones que los suelos tienen o son de vocación agrícola, ganadera o forestal, según el proyecto. Esta aseveración paradigmática convertida en arquetipo forma parte del argot docente, gerencial y de los diseñadores, formuladores y ejecutores de proyectos sociales, resultando en consecuencia, que tales expresiones inapropiadas se han ido percolado en los escenarios promotores del conocimiento y en las disertaciones públicas.
By correctly interpreting the definition of the previous words in their roots, the conceptual change implies recognizing, at least idiomatically, that the vocation lies in the producers whether they are called foresters, farmers or ranchers, but the aptitudes are the characteristics that soils have, such as the fertility, quality, physiography and, in general, those typologies that make the soils of a region particular and that due to such qualities can be used appropriately. Although there is this difference, both words are related to the human being, who has aptitudes (abilities) and vocation (intrinsic desire) for certain tastes, aligning in this sense by the one-to-one analogy that exists between vocation and aptitude of individuals, on the other hand, soils have only abilities and not vocations.
Understanding that aptitude is defined as the physical capacity to adequately perform a task, it must be stated that soils have aptitude for… that is, they are suitable for carrying out, for example, forestry projects, this is much more correct on the contrary to conceptualize that soils have a forest vocation. If we continue to think like this, it is worth insisting that the vocation lies in the people and that, when talking about farmers or ranchers they are called that because they personally appreciate these activities, a vocation that is expressed when they seek and use local soils with appropriate aptitudes for establishment. of crops and pastures, places where agriculture and livestock would be developed for personal and economic satisfaction.
Vo c ac i or n - Fitness - Impact
To further typify the difference in paradigmatic concepts, it is very common to speak of the impact on the physical environment that is expected as a result of a project, such an expression leads us to interpret in advance that the impact applies only to the environment that has the aptitude to host desires or particular objectives. This conceptualization proposes that projects are designed to exclusively modify an environment that is apparently suitable for something, but not to impact the residents of the environment. Given this, it is fruitful to recognize that the impact operates on human individuals, for good when it favors them or for Badly when they are unfavorable and the projects have dire consequences on the people who have applied the indications resulting from their execution.
In order to take advantage of the resources sustainably, the Territorial Ordering Plans (POT) must be formulated and developed to organize the resources and modify the direction of development through regional intervention and improvement in economic, social and environmental aspects. Although in this tool the people are not made explicit, only perhaps something in the social statement, this approach is validated as long as those who manipulate the POT, must understand that development is directed by and for the people, who, being trained Consequently, they will tend to improve the regional environment, since resources alone and without administration are not mobilized or ensure development, whatever its nature.
As an example correlated with the arguments presented, it is the design of a project to build a dam in order to impound water, regulate local hydrology, avoid floods, have more and better water quality and ensure the availability of this resource for the irrigation of local crops. So far everything is fine, but projects oriented and defined to improve only the hydrographic conditions and local environment based on the suitability of the soils, make the designer and the executor of the development initiative focus on the physical environment and not on the people for whom the objectives must be clear, defining textually in the objective who exactly are benefited and what goods or services the members of the community settled in that territorial environment to improve will enjoy.
By excluding the beneficiaries, there is a risk of not achieving the expected results and the projects will fail because they have not been given the opportunity to participate, this leads to recommend to the formulators of development initiatives to involve, without exception, the affected communities to that are part during the gestation and development of development initiatives, initiatives that are specified in projects with the formulation of an idea of development, design, execution, monitoring and evaluation, including the measurement of the impact on the inhabitants and the environment at the times that warrants this action.
Vo c ac i or n - Fitness - Impact - Research
The approach of designing projects whose objectives are to improve the environment, a plant or animal individual is recurrent when formulating research projects, livestock, agriculture and forestry, for example, using genetic improvement to achieve new breeds of cattle that produce greater amounts of milk per unit or increase the productivity per unit area of a vegetable.
Again and up to here there is no problem, but the project is more acceptable and motivating when its primary and essential objective is not the improvement of the cattle or the vegetable but the people, given this perception, change the objective of the research towards achieving new breeds that produce greater quantity of milk and quality or increase the productivity of a vegetable product, but in both cases, the main primary objective would be to increase the mass consumption of milk for consumption, reduce production costs to provide better prices and finally contribute to the good health of society, in a broader sense, there must be a succession of purposes through the chain>>>.
R e c u r s o s renewable and non-renewable
To renew is to revive new hopes of change in a generational time, in the short, medium, long term or geological. These concepts of time are estimated by man to establish life stages or define economic criteria such as the annual fiscal period, thus, it is usual to make statements that the only renewable natural resources are plants and animals, among others, and that mineralogical, For example, they are not, I think that all resources are renewable, only that the extension in time varies given the human perception of the term of age referring to living beings, on the other hand, in the inert ones the term of age acquires a connotation geological and that therefore require a longer time to recover not within the reach of the present man.
And why is this thought?… because people stop thinking in the long term and productive reforestation projects are demotivated, especially when a producer is invited to reforest as a profitable economic activity, given this perspective, the immediate perception of the reforested potential is that it will receive the benefits in the very long term, this measurement of durability discourages the producer because there is the immediacy that the economic results are for now, something logical before the needs of each individual but absent in the futuristic imaginary of man.
To break this paradigm of forest time, so that it produces a tree or stand in the long term, it is necessary to differentiate two important concepts such as the biological shift and the economic shift. The t biological ueno is associated and refers to the productive cycle of the tree, for example, the timber shift, space indicating the time when the results are harvested in a time less than twenty years.
Instead, consider the economic shiftof each tree or stand, it can be more motivating and stimulating to carry out reforestation campaigns with large, small, medium and large companies. The concept of economic shift implies reforesting with species that once planted can be used at certain times, that is, a tree or stand can be economically useful at any stage of its transition to being timber (twenty or more years), such as the case of intentionally reforesting with a high density, and taking advantage of the possibility of thinning and pruning, activities that originate the production of materials usable by the wood industry in the short term. Other examples are planting trees to produce pulp before reaching the timber shift or selling them to the timber industry to produce transformed elements made from pressed and crushed materials.
In general, considering the economic shift assumes that the tree or stand has the capacity to produce income in the different stages that the producer wants, unless it is desired to obtain wood with specific dimensions and quality, an achievable purpose beyond twenty years, possibly.
R e fl ex i o n e s
- With these approaches, beyond any Byzantine dissertation, those involved are induced to analyze the meaning of words, which, when used, can cause both good and bad and confusion.
- The words when linked come from correct or incorrect interpretations, in favor of what is correct, it is logical and necessary to create precise concepts when it comes to teaching by teachers and formulators of objectives for social projects, objectives that must be written with accuracy and precision indicating what the development initiative is for, what the different benefits are and to whom the new options for progress are specifically directed.
- Analytically, definitions and words such as those shown here, visualize a subtle practical difference that prompts to begin to change and understand the difference between vocation and aptitude, a change that implies recognizing that nothing is gained when physical, human and economic efforts are made. aims at projects aimed at exclusively improving and merely optimizing the use of a plant, an animal or the environment, so that respectively, they produce more seeds and fruits, cattle that give more milk or that only the habitat benefits and is renewed but without direct benefit for human communities.
- Applying and always based on better concepts, it is expected to have projects that optimize the human tissue, generating more production and plant, animal productivity and environmental quality, in order to strengthen food safety and achieve physical and mental health, in such a way that the impact The end would be to achieve the change towards a healthy community, without using a plant, animal or the environment primarily to make them more efficient, but not very effective if the changes generated do not achieve a better life and well-being of the community, a state that is also manifested in benefits for the environment, such as lowering inefficient pressure on resources.
- It is appropriate to reaffirm that the objectives of social projects should focus on people, who are impacted by the results and achievements of a project in the first instance, because they were the ones who adopted advanced behaviors and actions and who modified their behavior in the face of the changes introduced by the development initiative, however, it is understandable that the impact falls on the environment but as a consequence of the behavioral change of the people benefited by the project, being clearer, the impact of the projects have effects on living beings especially human, who are the that, positively or negatively, affect the environment or the place where they live, although other beings,They can apparently also impact the environment positively or negatively when a biological imbalance is generated between animal or plant species entropically.
- When the designer and the executor of the projects, differentiate and understand that the vocational is proper to the people and that the aptitude is possessed by the physical environment, the text and the intention of the objective, it will be oriented to the people and their environment, with this appreciation the formulation of objectives and purposes of the projects are more coherent, more affective and effective and with this the probabilities of success and possibilities to access available resources in the national and international community are increased.
- The general objectives of projects, unlike the specific ones, when formulated for individual and collective development, become clear when they indicate exactly:
- Purposes, people or community benefited (names, community, number of people, time…).
- Quantified and measurable benefits that the community would be willing to receive (social, economic, sustainability).
- Impactos sobre las personas directa e indirectamente como consecuencia de la realización de las actividades para la ejecución del proyecto.Moralidad social, aparentemente no visible, pero explícita y entendida como un deseo sincero de los formuladores y ejecutores de proyectos para que la gente mejore su bienestar permanentemente, deseo que se demuestra con la calidad del diseño, formulación de la iniciativa para el desarrollo en forma precisa, ejecución planificada y oportuna, correcta aplicación de recursos económicos, seguimiento permanente y evaluación interna y externa de resultados los cuales a final de cuentas se traducen en una comunidad feliz, condición y calidad no considerada en los objetivos de proyectos porque parecería ridículo buscar un tal propósito finito.
Finally, it is necessary to appropriate and recognize that a correct conceptualization without bias, promotes the real and practical application of definitions and concepts beyond a semantic whim, such as correctly interpreting that the vocation is related to the human and that it also has aptitudes or capacities to do something, and that the physical as the soil, has convenient aptitudes that make it suitable for something specific, in conclusion, applying well-characterized concepts will have greater chances of obtaining favorable results for human communities and the habitat, in general.
1 Gustavo E. Jaller G. Forest Engineer National University, Medellín Section. MS Institute
Tecnológico de Monterrey, NL Mexico. [email protected]
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