This article proposes a new vision for the municipality of Chocontá, Cundinamarca (Colombia), to make an approach from ecological economics, in which, the social, economic and cultural make up a subsystem of the ecological system. In this municipality, the biodiversity of the three lower-ranking ecosystems it contains, generates various eco-services that contribute to the welfare of its inhabitants To characterize the identification of the services that biodiversity generates, were investigated on the perception of these different social actors of the mentioned territory. The results show the close links between human welfare and natural capital, which by processes of economic globalization, have been detrimental.
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ecological economics, biodiversity, ecosystem services, welfare, social actors, natural capital.
