Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. Facultad de Ciencias. Departamento Académico de Ingeniería Ambiental, Física y Meteorología

In Peru, the communities located along the Andes Mountains at more than 3000 meters above sea level, have a behavior highly susceptible to any type of research activity on the mountain areas, mainly due to the past wrong management of mountain resources by mining companies for many decades, without an eco-efficient or optimal mineral extraction process from an environmental point of view. The biggest problem in conducting research activities in these areas is demonstrating to communities that research activities are of great common benefit and not of private interest. Here are strategies for awareness-raising work in mountain communities, prior to the execution of a research project. The study case was taken on the project to install a monitoring system over high danger Arhuaycocha glacier lake at Río Blanco-Santa Cruz Sub-basin, Ancash, Peru, where the Santa Cruz district is located on...