Estratégias de educação ambiental orientadas ao desenvolvimento sustentável em Bom Jesus da Lapa (BA)

Abstract

The central objective of proposing intervention strategies that incorporate prevention and coping measures with emphasis on environmental education aimed at the sustainable development of the municipality of Bom Jesus da Lapa, located in the northwest of the State of Bahia, in the Northeast of Brazil, where rivers, riparian forests and land for agriculture are unprotected. It is necessary to identify the socioeconomic conditions of the farmers and inhabitants of the rivers who live in the rural area of the municipality, registered in the associations investigated, to guide them based on sustainable production. The most relevant results have shown that a more complex and coordinated work, of great proportions, is necessary in order to offer the inhabitants of the region an environmental education of quality, which really helps the inhabitants of the area to produce and, at the same time, preserve the natural resources (flora and fauna) of the region. Understanding sustainable development requires discussing the social mediations that underlie the very meaning of development and the meaning of the environmental crisis. This is a dual articulation of ideas, which involves a theoretical tension and a conceptual strength, present in contemporary capitalism. For there to be sustainable development, there must be environmental awareness of society as a whole. Both schools and educators have to play their part, so that sustainable development can be achieved. It is believed that an effective tool for environmental awareness is made through formal education, putting into practice.