Abstract
GIS for Sustainable Development Dominican Republic: Boca Chica Schools Case
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author(s): Quinta Perez Sierra, Stafany Hernández, Luis Joyanes
In the Geographic Information System (GIS) school of Las Americas Technological Institute (ITLA), we consider environmental education as the cornerstone to fulfill sustainable development in the Dominican Republic and our main goal is to make students conscious of the environmental protection.
In the Dominican Republic we suffer global environmental problems: disforestation, disasters, lost of biological diversity, soil degradation, climate changes, thinning of the ozone layer, contamination, lack of water resources and population growth; we pretend to attack from the beginning those problems, teaching ArcGIS tools in schools.
Based on the written before, we also made-up to bring GIS technology to support teaching-learning process giving special emphasis in the elementary curriculum, in biology and preservation of natural resources; focusing in a special study case based on the zone of Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, that will measure the social impact in different environments. We pretend expose how the project will be implemented.
Quinta Perez Sierra
Instituto Tecnológico de las Américas
Autopista Las Americas, km 27
Parque Cibernético de Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo , Santo Domingo 15700
Dominican Republic
Phone: 18097384852
Fax: 18097384800
E-mail: qperez@itla.edu.do
Stafany Hernández
ITLA
Autopista Las Americas, km 27
Santo Domingo , Boca Chica 15700
Dominican Republic
Phone: 8097384852
Fax: 8097384800
E-mail: shernandez@itla.edu.do
Luis Joyanes
UPSAM
Madrid
Madrid , Madrid 28018
Spain
Phone: 667438400
E-mail: joyanes@gmail.com