Knowledge management for the local development of coastal communities in conditions of environmental fragility. Isabela de Sagua, Cuba.

Knowledge plays an essential place for development in the contemporary world due to its exponential growth and its impact on social life. Its management has become a matter of the first order because of the need to promote its use in the most diverse social processes, from the most relevant at the macro level to those of daily life. In this the universities have an assignment that goes beyond the training of professionals to be institutions that lead the production, dissemination and use of knowledge.In Cuba, knowledge management is an extended practice as a contribution to local community development processes, along with the dissemination of Municipal University Centers with the capacity to promote the continuity of learning in all sectors of society and for scientific production with high rigor for the solution of local problems.