O senso de cidadania ambiental na sociedade contemporânea: estudo de caso realizado no município de Céu Azul-PR

Abstract

In times of increased preoccupation with environmental issues, this research aims to verify which are the actions that legitimize the idea of Environmental Education as stimuli for individual and collective environmental attitudes. For that, we look to approach the formation of present society (which fundaments in the marketization and consumption culture) as a practice and the concept of ecological subject (defended by Carvalho, 2001), as a theoretical parameter. As such, we can affirm that currently the behaviour of people is influentiated by the so called unnecessary necessities, and, against that logic, the Environmental Education comes as an instrument capable of modifying the pattern of social and environmental relations, by effecting the established actions at the concept of environmental citizenship, next to the concept of environmental subject. This citizen blooms as a being capable of acting to the rules presented by the ruling system, empowered by the libertary pretension of the existing borders, constituting itself as a part of a new perspective to the environmental and political act in place. So being, the practical part of the work was performed (em português o resumo foi alterado, precisa alterar aqui também) in the city of Céu Azul/PR, by Survey, with the application of 2.345 questionnaires, with 24 closed questions. The choosing of this city happened intentionally, once this town presents an environmental twist, the presence of the Iguacu National Park in 72% of its territory. The collected data was analysed statistically with the help of Microsoft Office Excel® (2007) and IBM SPSS® Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 21) and by the Content Analysis technique, in which objective was to averigate the consumption pattern imposed by the capitalist economical system that is drenched in the choosing population. Parting from the collected information, we can conclude that the population cares with the environmental issues surveyed; but doesn t apply them or completely get involved. In this sense, we defend in this study the necessity of changes in behaviour and practices development for the sake of the environment and the environmental preservation by its participants, because the damages are still seen as not an individual responsibility issue.