Recursos, producción y ambiente

• Autor: Quispe, Isabel
• Formato: capítulo de libro
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/184479
• Enlace del recurso: https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/184479; https://doi.org/10.18800/978-9972-674-30-3.016
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Recursos naturales--Perú; Ambiente--Perú; Producción; Análisis de ciclo de vida; Natural resources; Environment; Production; Life cycle assessment; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.00

The environment is in a difficult and complex situation where natural resources are decreasing to attend the needs of the population, because the resource replacement rate is lower than its consumption rate. The population is constantly growing, to date there are 7.8 billion inhabitants, and it is estimated at 8.5 billion inhabitants by 2030. They will require food, clothing, housing, services and others, that is, natural resources will be needed to be transformed and obtain goods and services. In this context, Peru is a megadiverse country and very rich in natural resources such as forest, hydro-biological, water, mining, hydrocarbon resources, soil, among others, which can become a pantry for the world. What is the situation of these resources today? It is necessary to include production systems to understand environmental problems, since to obtain goods and services, these systems consume resources and generate waste, effluents and / or emissions in their operations, impacting the environment. So, it is necessary to know how these systems have been developed. Were environmental criteria considered in decision making? To contribute to sustainability, avoiding or mitigating environmental impacts, it is necessary to make decisions using methodologies and tools with a more comprehensive approach such as, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, circular economy, among others.