Análisis del impacto ambiental generado por las cafeterías y restaurantes que ofrecen servicio en el Malecón Simón Bolívar – Guayaquil.

Abstract

This research work includes a study of identification and comparison of characteristics, conditions and actions that within the environmental scope, allow to analyze the possible impact currently generated by coffee shops and restaurants that offer service in the Malecon Simón Bolívar of the city of Guayaquil, being this space an emblematic urban-architectural site as a booming tourism concept. The loss of biocapacity and maintaining balance in the triangular concept of sustainability for many spaces in Guayaquil, leads to great concern and need to take the Simón Bolívar Malecon as a tourist object of observation in the care and possible environmental restoration. Based on this, a detailed review of the conceptual, legal and referential framework is carried out, which serves to directly base the actions that administrators, users and community must have in a social, moral and economic co-responsibility way in the face of the environmental impacts caused. For the investigation is necessary to use the tool for measuring environmental impacts called “Leopold Matrix”, which allows to detect the impacts generated or caused by the ten establishments of selected food and beverages. The study based on a descriptive method of behavior, procedures and actions taken by the ten establishments is the product of interviews and observation. Finally, the analysis and interpretation carried out by each cafeteria and restaurant in its impact measurement chart, allows to have a clear vision on the environmental impacts of higher level and coincidence that currently affect the environment and ecosystem of the Malecon Simón Bolívar, in order to proceed to the formulation of a proposal with improvement strategies and actions aimed at the establishments and even the administration of the Simón Bolívar Malecon to reduce its environmental impact.