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In 2002, the Colombian Ministry of the Environment elaborated the National Strategic Plan for Green Markets to consolidate the production of environmental goods and services and take advantage of what the country's biodiversity has to offer. The PENMV was not implemented accurately in the province of Amazonas, due to the inexistence of a model to define how the province, the institutions involved in the topic and the citizen participation should be articulated. When a review of the governmental plans implemented at different points in time in the Amazon province is undertaken, no informationation can be found; thus evidencing the inexistence of that articulation. What it is presented are the main initiatives in the sustainable management of biodiversity developed by some local actors under actions implemented by national institutions such as the SINCHI Institute and Corpoamazonia that are supported in the framework of the plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three moments of the Bogota's air quality policies (1974-2007) are examined, from the constructivist perspective and of the critical analysis of the discourse, with the purpose of reveal the paradigms that sustain these decisions as well as the influence of the social actors, in the context of an globalized and neoliberal world. The precarious comprehension of the problems prints on the policies ones a stamp of ineffectiveness that overcomes widely the expectations that suggest his texts but it allows that the tecno-bureaucracy should justify the fulfillment of his obligations without one manages to transform, or reverse, the undesirable situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental management in cities, especially related with air, water and soil poses important challenges to a society; Colombia's current economic development model, following unsustainable production and consumption patterns, causes pollution with very high costs for societies, related to health problems and deterioration of natural renewable resources. Public policies related to environmental management must focus on prevention and must follow principles like the producer's extended responsibility, in the frame of the life cycle of the product. This represents a co-responsibility of institutional stakeholders as well as that of citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]