Pedro Mauricio Acosta-Castellanos

• PhD.
• Professor (Full) at Saint Thomas Aquinas University

Este libro muestra un acercamiento a los conceptos de desarrollo, a la sostenibilidad ambiental. Este documento presenta de manera clara y fácil de entender el contexto actual ambiental, las perspectivas y posibles soluciones. Resume las claves e hitos académicos que dan forma al concepto de desarrollo sostenible. Este libro es esencial para las pe...

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la educación ambiental como estrategia para dar solución a la generación de residuos sólidos, aplicando el método aprendizaje por problemas orientado por proyectos, ABP-OP, y el desarrollo de competencias humanas y profesionales. Los proyectos fueron elaborados y aplicados por parte de estudiantes de...

Introduction Environmental education (EE) has been extensively studied and promoted in Latin America, particularly in Colombia, through educational policies and regulations at all educational stages. While EE is well-established, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is gaining increasing global importance, especially with the advent of the S...

This study examines the mediating effect of rural economic dynamization between socio-environmental heritage and the sustainability of protected areas in the buffer zone of the Serranía de las Quinchas Regional Natural Park, located in the municipality of Otanche, Boyacá Department, Colombia. The study population includes families that are part of...

Resumen—Es un artículo producto de la reflexión con base en las experiencias con el método de proyectos, especialmente orientados a la temática de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). La metodología involucró la confrontación de estos conocimientos construidos con autores que permiten arrojar nuevas perspectivas. Se hizo con enfoque cualit...

Given the serious characteristics and consequences in education derived from the pandemic in the world, the research was developed, which gives rise to this article. Objective: it was done with the purpose of assessing the impact of Covid-19 in private preschool and primary schools in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. Materials and methods: surv...

IV International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering 12-14 July 2023 will be organized by U-Tad (University Center for Technology and Digital Art) in Madrid/ Spain. The ICMASE 2023 offers a variety of scientific sessions designed to appeal to a wide range of participants. It is a blended conference. All the ses...

Environmental education (EE) trains individuals to preserve ecological balance and understand the link between humanity and environmental protection. On the other hand, education for sustainable development (ESD) addresses social, cultural, political, and quality of life factors, and promotes the sustainable evolution of the planet. In Colombia, EE...

Microbial fuel cells are a technological alternative that seeks, among others, to contribute to the reduction of poverty through the access of rural communities to natural resources, to generate affordable and non-polluting energy in a renewable way, promote innovation and contribute to the climate action through sustainable solutions. In the prese...

The ecological wealth is one of the variables with major affectation on the water resource in different parts of the world, this owes principally to the influence of the human development and the absence of interest on the part of institutions and communities. It is like that, since this study is born from the systematical review applied to 126 art...

The Serranía las Quinchas Regional Natural Park (PNRSQ) is an environmental relict that was declared a protected area by agreement No. 0028 in 2008 by the Boyacá Autonomous Corporation. This action generated social and economic impacts on the community, since conventional economic practices had to be set aside to ensure the conservation of the prot...

Intensity, duration and frequency (IDF) curves are necessary tools for the design and construction of hydraulic projects. However, the pluviographic records needed to determine the IDF curves do not exist or are scarce. This research presents the regionalization of the IDF curves for the department of Boyacá, Colombia, which is made up of 16 munici...

Las lagunas de estabilización son un sistema de tratamiento de aguas residuales muy utilizado en zonas geográficas en desarrollo. Estos sistemas se caracterizan por los grandes espacios utilizados en términos de área, debido a los altos tiempos de retención hidráulica que se necesitan para remover la materia orgánica del agua residual. Uno de los m...

This paper presents a case study whose central axis is the inclusion of the subject of education for sustainable development (ESD) in the undergraduate study plan of the environmental engineering degree at the Santo Tomas University, Colombia (USTA). This study is based on a diagnosis developed from a survey conducted among students from USTA and 4...

Renewable energies (RE) are becoming more and more important as fossil fuels are depleting at rates never seen before. Global warming is becoming a significant environmental problem affecting many people and ecosystems which enhances the need of implementing these technologies. Universities are the hub for the advancement and distribution of knowle...

Protected areas offer environmental goods and services to local communities, who have based their aptitude on the availability of water resources with practices associated with the legacy of their ancestors. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of changes in land cover on the availability of water resources in the Serrania de Las Qui...

La investigación en general es uno de los pilares fundamentales de la formación de un ingeniero ambiental, debido a que el programa obedece a ciencias básicas y de la ingeniería que requieren de la construcción de conocimiento investigativo. En el presente escrito de tipo reflexivo se expone la implementación del modelo educativo pedagógico de la f...

For the development of society, the training of upright professionals is required, especially in environmental matters. Therefore, it is necessary to apply training processes that involve the construction of competencies, to face the solution of the problems that currently arise. For this, academic spaces are required with methodologies that apply...

Bioengineering is a science that brings together the principles of biology and the tools that engineering can offer, so that different products can be created that are useful, economically viable and tangible. Thanks to the above, it can be recognized that this combination of topics favors the inclusion of environmental, agricultural and livestock...

Sustainable development (SD) is a great global commitment in economic, social, and environmental terms of the century XXI. This model integrates conventional developmental models that seek economic growth, but at the same time encourages human development, all within the framework of respect and sustainable use of natural resources. This integrativ...

Con este ensayo de aula se pretende que los estudiantes busquen las alternativas sostenibles a los problemas ambientales de Colombia, desde su pensamiento con un soporte bibliográfico y que fomenten en su quehacer la interdisciplinariedad [1]. Así mismo se pretende contribuir desde la asignatura de desarrollo sostenible de la carrera de ingeniería...

Sustainable development (SD) is a global commitment, in the economic, social, and environmental terms of the 21st century. The SD integrates conventional development models that seek economic growth and human development, within the framework of respect and sustainable use of natural resources. This challenge must involve all levels of society. Hig...

Purpose In education concerning environmental issues, there are two predominant currents in the world, environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is the formal commitment and therefore promoted by the United Nations, to ensure that countries achieve sustainable development. In contrast, EE was the first educat...

Service-learning (SL) helps engineering students to be involved in community activities and to be motivated by their studies. Although several reviews and research studies have been published about SL, it is not widespread in sciences and engineering at the university level. The purpose of this research is to analyze the different community service...

En los últimos lustros, el tema ambiental ha adquirido una mayor significación para la humanidad y está relacionado de manera interdisciplinar con diversos campos del saber. La toma de decisiones en el estamento público de quienes determinan acciones en el ámbito científico, jurídico, político y económico son importantes, pues cada acción que abord...

This article is presented as a systematic review on the manufacture of a potato waste fertilizer. The Parsifal platform will be used for the structuring and selection of the required information, taking into account the characteristics of this platform, the search for articles in sources such as Scopus and Scielo will be carried out, through the us...

This research study was founded to analyze how the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), within the framework of a transversal project of the Environmental Biotechnology Course for students of Environmental Engineering which generates significant contributions in pedagogical aspects and in the organization and transformation of e...

El tratamiento de aguas residuales, permite reducir los contaminantes que adquiere el agua al ser utilizada en diferentes procesos domésticos e industriales. Dentro de algunos de sus procesos se obtienen lodos conocidos como biosólidos, los cuales, por sus características representan un riesgo para la salud humana y biótica del entorno, pues contie...

Tres mil cuatrocientos millones de años lleva la vida sobre la faz de la tierra y al ser humano lo ubican apenas, hace trescientos mil años; es decir que la vida en el planeta ha transitado la mayor parte del tiempo, sin nosotros; sin embargo, la revolución industrial marcó el comienzo del uso de combustibles fósiles (carbón, petróleo y gas natural...

nterpolation tools are used daily in hydrology and climatology. With the purpose to regionalize spot´s registration parameters, such as depth of precipitation, temperature, humidity, among others. The accuracy of these methods is not fully validated. This research presents a comparative study between the most used interpolation methods for the regi...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Environmental Education (EE) is being transformed into a more complex model, where different environmental, social, and economic factors are taken into account. This model is called Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), which seeks to create the foundations to achieve sustainable development. In Highe...

Environmental education (EE) has become the only tool for environmental sustainability in training processes in Colombia, for basic cycles in primary and secondary, as well as university education. EE tends to transform human actions in nature, based on multidisciplinary knowledge that supports decision-making. Its goal is to generate a change in s...

La sociedad del conocimiento como nuestra época histórica se declara muchas veces, necesita constantes transformaciones y estar a la vanguardia de los desafíos actuales y futuros. La contaminación, el oprobio que sufre la naturaleza, el desgaste de los recursos naturales entre otros, son los grandes retos que debemos enfrentar en el siglo XXI, la i...

La atención puesta por la comunidad internacional sobre los temas ambientales no constituye ninguna novedad; desde los años 70, han proliferado un sinnúmero de tratados, protocolos, acuerdos, cumbres, organismos e instituciones en la búsqueda de lograr acciones concertadas entre los Estados a fin de enfrentar una problemática global. Sin embargo, y...

“El Jardín de Michuá” nace como una propuesta de valor, oferente de productos y servicios propios del que hacer de una granja boyacense con altos estándares de calidad, enmarcado en un contexto cultural, ambiental, productivo, tecnológico, de desarrollo sostenible y de emprendimiento en el municipio de Chiquinquirá-Boyacá; está encaminada a incenti...

Environmental education has become an important tool for human development, especially in basic cycles such as primary and secondary school. It tends to transform human actions towards nature, based on multidisciplinary knowledge that supports decision-making, generating a change in social behavior, and achieving recovery, conservation and preserva...

Environmental education has become an important tool for human formation, especially in basic cycles such as primary and secondary school, which tends to transform human actions on nature, based on multidisciplinary knowledge that supports decision-making, generating a change in social behavior achieving recovery, conservation and preservation of t...

Análisis de variables físicas y microbiológicas en el proceso de compostaje de biosólidos en pilas menores a un metro cúbico Analysis of physical and microbiological variables in the process of composting biosolids in piles smaller than one cubic meter Resumen: Los biosólidos son lodos producidos por el tratamiento de las aguas residuales en las pl...

An intervention on the middle landscape, that land of urban peripheries that is neither urban nor rural, should take place to avoid the informality and fragmentation setting in before orderly and planned development. Such an intervention should allow the urban and social fabric to flow without discontinuity from central urban areas right through to...

The International Roughness Index as a need to unify global criteria for measuring the quality of the pavement ended where transport management in a very sensitive within the logistics system and an error aspect can mean significant economic consequences, which is why has chosen various ways concession nationally and more recently several airports....

p>Este artículo presenta los resultados de investigación de la evaluación en la eficacia de la remoción de parámetros microbiológicos del agua por medio de radiación ultravioleta. Se hizo mediante ensayos estáticos en un banco de pruebas donde se irradiaron nueve muestras de agua, en las que se variaron las condiciones del medio y del agua. Los par...

En este trabajo se presenta la regionalización de las curvas de intensidad-duración y frecuencia a partir del uso de diferentes modelos hidrometereológicos, tomando como área de estudio la Sabana Occidental del departamento de Cundinamarca-Colombia. Para esto, se realiza el respectivo cálculo de las curvas IDF a partir del análisis de las intensida...

Resumen ste artículo presenta los resultados de inves-tigación de la evaluación en la eficacia de la remoción de parámetros microbiológicos del agua por medio de radiación ultravioleta. Se hizo mediante ensayos estáticos en un banco de pruebas donde se irradiaron nueve muestras de agua, en las que se variaron las condiciones del medio y del agua. L...

RESUMEN El presente artículo es producto de investigación, como resultado de la reflexión hecha a lo largo de muchos años de experiencia profesional y docente en diferentes universidades estudiando, redactando y evaluando ensayos. Presenta la importancia del ensayo como instrumento y dispositivo de la formación en la educación y especialmente se ha...

p>Las curvas intensidad, duración y frecuencia (IDF) son de gran importancia para el diseño de obras hidráulicas; por tal motivo, conocer las metodologías para su construcción es importante. Este artículo presenta una evaluación de las metodologías para la construcción de curvas IDF, aplicando distribuciones de probabilidad como EVI, Pearson Tipo I...

The intensity, duration and frequency's curves (IDF) are very important for the hydraulic structures' design. For that reason is important to know these curves construction methodologies. This paper presents some methodologies evaluation, for the IDF curves construction, by applying probability distributions as EVI, Pearson type III, log-Pearson Ty...

RESUMEN Tomando como base modelos actuales en hidrología, y de preliminar de lo que será el componente HMC (Modelo condiciones de subsuelo y zona subterránea de manera desde su estado como precipitación, pasando por el solución explícita de ecuaciones que trabajan celda a celda Palabras clave-El autor debe proporcionar palabras clave ABSTRACT Based...

Tomando como base modelos actuales en hidrología y de acuerdo a las características y la base del modelo IBER, se ha ajustado el esquema preliminar de lo que sera el componente HMC del modelo IBER, adaptado en condiciones de subsuelo y zona subterranea de manera continua al modelo hidrológico basado en esquemas de volúmenes finitos.