Relationship between Knowledge Appropriation and Policies of the Municipality of Valledupar against Climate Change

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the perception of knowledge appropriation and government actions of the municipality of Valledupar regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the period 2020-2023. This research was based on the positivist paradigm with a quantitative approach and a correlational scope, initially measuring the level of citizen perception of the government actions of the municipality of Valledupar, and the appropriation of knowledge regarding climate change, by through a descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the data; and in a second moment, a correlation analysis of the study variables was carried out. Among the results, the non-execution of actions to confront the phenomenon of climate change in the municipality of Valledupar was evident, directly affecting the perception with a higher degree of dissatisfaction in the social appropriation of knowledge of the community of the municipality and dissatisfaction in the actions developed by the Municipal Administration against the phenomenon, and verifying a considerable level of positive correlation between the study variables.