Eficacia del seguimiento a las licencias ambientales expedidas por el estado colombiano para el funcionamiento del relleno sanitario Doña Juana en Bogotá

Abstract

The monitoring of environmental licenses is important to guarantee the fundamental rights of people in relation to their direct impact on health and their environment, which are protected in the 1991 Constitution. However, despite the fact that in Colombia there is a diversity of Environmental regulations for the management of sanitary landfills, the entities in charge of making effective the surveillance, control and monitoring of the granted licenses, have made a precarious intervention which has brought as a consequence that this place operates in an anti-technical manner, fails to environmental standards and generate health emergencies. Consequently, the present work seeks to analyze how Landfill Doña Juana, has breached environmental standards and its monitoring by the entities in charge has been deficient which has generated negative impacts on the environment and people living in the surrounding areas.