%0 Article %A Carreño Bustamante, María Teresa %I Universidad de Manizales (UManizales): Centro de Investigaciones Socio-Jurídicas de la Facultad de Derecho %D 2010 %T El papel de la participación ciudadana en la eficacia de las decisiones político-administrativas y ambientales en la protección del derecho a un ambiente sano de las comunidades ubicadas alrededor de la quebrada Manizales en la zona industrial de Maltería. Manizales, Colombia %U https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=3343288 %X This article becomes already stated research project, and is about citizenship as a mechanism of protection for the environment, at a point as contamination of Manizales, Creek by effect of polluting fluids from industrial zone of the city, This project was carried out under a qualitative methodology involving belonging to the living community sector focus groups, it is concluded that this social group is very low resale despite that it is widely developed in the C.N. in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, the reason for the low participation has to do with the lack of training and lack of capacity of the community.