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The purpose of this paper was to make a contribution to the environmental arrangement of the livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey, Cuba. The indicators restrictions, categories, and conflicts of the livestock potential in the region were identified and located on a map. Additionally, the policies, guidelines, regulations and standards for proper environmental management in each livestock area were determined. The study concluded that the potential of livestock activity consists in environmentally recommended use in the main eight of the seventeen secondary environmental areas that make up the region. One of them was considered for secondary use. In terms of categories, the municipality comprises 126.9 km2 with inexistent livestock potential, including several settlements and water reservoirs; 115.7 km2 were identified as poor potential; 316.3 km2 had a mid-potential; and 225.4 km2 was high. The previous contributed to the environmental arrangement of the livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey. Accordingly, the restrictions, indicators, categories, and conflicts observed in the sector were determined, to be used as recommendations for development in the secondary environmental areas with some potential, as well as to set up policies, and general and specific guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Litter presence was assessed on the entire Cuban coastline, and includes 99 beaches from all Cuban regions, during field work carried out in 2012 and 2015. A standard method verified in several countries was applied, which classified beaches for nine types of litter into four grades (A-excellent to D-poor). Almost half of the Cuban beaches obtained excellent cleanliness scores, although many needed to be better managed. In this baseline, the most common types of residue were general litter (8% grade D and 35% grades B/C) and potentially harmful litter (< 68% with grade A). Resort beaches and those with international visitors showed the best litter management. Tourism Impacts seems to be related to visitor origin therefore choices to develop sustainable tourism in rural and village beaches (64%) appears low, if beach cleaning gross investment is focused on resort beaches (24%). Finally, this paper highlights geographical distribution and types of litter patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Educommunication is a way of educative communication that promotes group learning from, trough and for communication. This paper systematizes two educommunicative experiences dealing with environmental issues, implemented by the Faculty of Communication of the University of Havana, in a collaboration project with the Cuban Environment Agency. As a result, it describes the methodological perspectives used, and the characteristics of the lived process emphasizing the roll of video and the learned lessons. It also highlights the importance of educommunication for integrating teenage population into environment management process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Achievement of environmental management goals and objectives in coastal areas, including how to measure success, remains a significant subject for discussion among scholars and practitioners, meanwhile four distinct management efforts potentially converge within the coastal zone: land-use planning (LUP), river basin management (RBM), marine spatial planning (MSP) and integrated coastal management (ICM). This paper examines the general lack of attention being paid to overlapping spatial boundaries within the landward and marine areas and proposes an indicator-based framework to measure the effectiveness of the individual planning instruments, as opposed to specific initiatives, in achieving management goals. The six indicators used in the framework (planning; participation; communication; integration; responsibility and balance) are based on a modified version of the Coastal Sustainability Standard methodology described by Gallagher (2010) . The framework provides for four scenarios of progress in three geographical dimensions (river, municipality and marine area) to be assessed. For this study, the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Cuba were identified as the areas to test the feasibility and relevance of the indicator framework to monitor progress in the different management approaches established to achieve coastal sustainability. Several key observations and lessons from the indicator-based framework are discussed in order to analyze the overlapping of the four space-based instruments, identify areas for targeted intervention and improve their integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The urbanization acceleration of growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the eighties, has increased the demand for natural resources and the volume of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) to be transported, treated and finally disposed. Environmental management in the administration of Domestic Solid Wastes (DSW) of Havana, short for MSW, has focused on the pollution control and the use of some environmental instruments, in isolated way. This paper propose a model with systems approach, linking the management of DSW environmental management through the environmental assessment of impacts generated by the strategies implemented in the province. Theoretical methods were used, statistical tools and life cycle analysis as well as the expert consultation and application of statistical tests to determine the degree of reliability of the proposed model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to develop an Environmental Management Strategy that is intended to reduce the environmental impacts in the Naranjo river drainage basin. In order to reach this objective, a diagnosis was done, that consisted in the literature review on the topic as well as the realization of participatory workshops involving different techniques, tools and methods, such as brainstorming, SWOT matrix, DPSIR framework and experts' approach, for identifying the main environmental problems that affect the basin. A geographic information system (GIS) was designed for managing natural resources in the basin. Results show that the main environmental problems are: soil degradation, ,deforestation (loss or lack of hidroregulatory fringes on river and reservoir beds), Deterioration of sanitary-hygienic conditions in human settlements, groundwater and air pollution were maily caused by the inadequate land-use planning, which, along with the population's lack of environmental education, not only contributes to maintaining the environmental impact, but also to increasing it, and can lead to irreversible damages. As part of the strategy, a series of agreed actions was planned to diminish the environmental problems in the basin, where the social actors take part actively in managing those problems, and favor the decision making process which focus on sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Results of the present paper are concerned with evaluating pollutant contributions to aquatic ecosystems according to the products processed in Cuban fishing facilities. The captures in 1955-1999 were between 3 950 and 23 970 t/year in 12 years of sampling, with BOD between 56 and 342 t/year and of DQO between 111 and 676 t/year. The principal nutrient was total nitrogen, followed by total phosphorous and finally ammonia-nitrogen, representing a total contribution of 136,3; 52,7 and 18,0 t/year respectively in those 12 years. The report culminates with the possible affectations caused by polluted water discharges to the ecosystem, recommending the use of the information offered in this document with the objective to elaborate future plans allowing the establishment of environmental management programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines how Cuba might become a Sustainable Society. Three questions are posed: What is a sustainable society? Why would Cuba want to be one? And how could Cuba become fully sustainable? First, the goal of a sustainable society is to ensure a vibrant and meaningful culture, a robust green economy and a protected environment with ecosystem integrity and a rich biodiversity. Only when all three objectives can be reached simultaneously over the long term can a society be considered fully sustainable. Second, three basic elements contribute to a sustainability rationale for Cuba: the country has several conditions and attributes conducive to achieving sustainability and few constraints; Cuba has already made considerable progress in achieving sustainability; and finally, the alternative of unsustainability does not constitute a good future. Third, ten components are suggested to enhance Cuban sustainability including: red-green ideology, green economy, sustainable state and party, sustainable agriculture and energy policies among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cuban archipelago hosts some of the most typical karst features in the Caribbean, and has very important and high-quality resources of karst water. Carbonate rocks cover about 70% of the country area, with a great variety of karst features, and outstanding exokarstic landforms such as the cone karst; in addition, many caves are regarded as cultural and historical sites. Protection of the karst hydric resources is therefore essential. In karst, the intrinsic vulnerability of the environment makes it highly susceptible to pollution, which may result in dramatic consequences for both the quality of karst water and the amount of water available. Many anthropogenic activities produce negative changes in the karst aquifers, in some cases with unrecoverable effects. In Cuba, five main sources of pollution to karst aquifers have been identified: sea water intrusion, agricultural practices, waste disposal, industrial activity, and mining and oil production. Due to the narrow and elongated configuration of the main island, wide portions of the territory are mostly affected by seawater intrusion problems, exacerbated by the concentration of both population and human activities in the largest towns located along, or very close to, the coasts. Seawater intrusion, however, is not the only source of pollution for Cuban karst aquifers. The other aforementioned sources are important, and may locally prevail (e.g. pollution resulting from sugar cane factories). Considerations on the management of karst aquifers and a brief description of the water quality monitoring system of Cuban inland waters are also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]