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- Title
La dimensión salud: ¿ignorada en la Política de Alcohol Carburante (PAC) en Colombia?
- Authors
García-Lozada, Héctor
- Abstract
The worldwide debate about global warming of the atmosphere, and the recognition of the decisive contribution of fossil fuels to gas emissions that intensify this phenomenon, have allowed the resurgence of energy options such as biomass, with the goal of reducing carbon emissions and provide benefits to farmers. These suppositions, currently quite controversial, leave out considerations about potential impacts on ecosystems and public health, due to the emission of high-risk substances, such is the case when ethanol mixed with gasoline is burned. This article examines how Alcohol Fuel politics are surging in the country and the way that the public health dimension is contemplated in those politics; through the use of the "multiple streams" model proposed by Kingdon and a narrative method to understand the process as well as the context of political decisions.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; ALCOHOL as fuel &; the environment; ENERGY policy &; society; EMISSIONS (Air pollution); ETHANOL as fuel; GOVERNMENT policy on renewable energy sources; EFFECT of environment on human beings; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2009, Issue 68, p269
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article