DISPLACEMENT OF THERMAL FLOORS AND THE SEMIOTIC LANGUAGE OF PLANTS AS AN EXPRESSION OF THEIR BIOLOGICAL STRESS:: TWO SOCIAL COLLECTIVE IMAGINATIONS OF THE CALDAS POPULATION ABOUT THE EFFECTS GNERATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

摘要

Part of the results obtained in a qualitative type research with the purpose of unveiling the social imaginations of the Caldas population about climate change are presented in this paper, and, at the same time, their importance to convene participative and inclusive actions about climate change in the Department of Caldas since schemas socially constructed structure and generate collective behaviors that condense in appreciations, ideals, values, and cultural practices which can constitute into social paradigms that, depending on their establishment degree, facilitate or block the development of a region in its different dimensions. In this sense, the Caldas population, through their perceptions of change in the environment, allowed the unveiling of the displacement in the thermal floors and the semiotic language of plants as two collective imaginations of the effects generated by climate change which request the undertaking of research actions about the affectation and reconfiguration of thermal floors as well as the design of mitigation and adaptation strategies based on the expression of the hydrological stress manifested by vegetation before the effects generated by climate change.