A política de educação ambiental como instrumento para a gestão integrada dos recursos naturais no estado do Pará: um estudo de caso do município de Paragominas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze environmental education as a public policy implemented by the Municipality of Paragominas in the management of local natural resources in response to the serious social, economic, ecological and cultural crisis that the community has experienced in the last decade. Paragominas, despite its peculiarities, is a geopolitical space representative of the environmental reality and the conflicts that the use of natural resources causes in the Amazon region, fruit of the development model that generated the environmental crisis and social inequality. Its social, economic, cultural and political dynamics were based on an initial cycle of exploitation of forest resources, followed by the tonic of deforestation and exploitation of livestock, with the consequent fall of activities due to the scarcity of these natural resources, with the search for New alternatives for local development in the following cycles. Paragominas's response to this crisis became known nationally, having generated a state-wide public policy, called "Green Municipalities", deserving of an accurate analysis, which identified and typified the Public Policy Cycles in the light of theories on management of Natural resources, environmental education as a field of articulation between knowledge and ethics and the typologies of public policies. Finally, it presents elements for a proposal to regulate environmental education programs by the National Environmental Council.