Abstract

MICHEL VARGAS, Ana María et al. Evaluación del uso de indicadores de biodiversidad en los estudios de evaluación de impacto ambiental (EEIAs) de los sectores más importantes de Bolivia. RevActaNova. [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.2, pp.204-235. ISSN 1683-0789.

Bolivia is a country with many ecoregions and therefore much biodiversity, which for the goods and services that it provides, requires special attention when threatened by climate change. Law No. 1333 of the Environment, includes the Environmental Impact Assessment Studies (EEIAs), as a regulatory mechanism for Activities, Works or Projects (AOPs), Categories I and II, in order to identify, evaluate and minimize the negative impacts in the different stages of the project, in order to obtain an Environmental License. The present work intends to evaluate the use of biodiversity indicators in the EEIAs in the 4 departments and 4 most important sectors of Bolivia; for which the most widely used EEIAs methods were identified and whether or not they considered biodiversity within those studies, through workshops with experts and the review of all AOPs from 10 years (2015-2015) Categories I and II of the National Environmental Information System, verifying in the field the most representative. The results show that there is incongruence in the EEIA methodologies used, 36% of them do not mention biodiversity, those that do it are reduced to a list of species, which does not allow to measure the real impact that the AOP can produce on biodiversity , making this instrument not useful, that accompanied by the shortcomings of the technicians who write and review this instrument, can become a disaster. The EEIAs need a clear accompanying regulation, as well as developing indicators, especially indicators of biodiversity.

Keywords : EIAs methods; biodiversity indicators in EIAs; Bolivia's most important sectors in EEIAs; Bolivia's most important departments in EEIAs.

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