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New Perspectives in Science Education 3th Edition 2014

Environmental Education Studies: an Epistemological and Conceptual Perspective about Environment

Iluska Lobo Braga; Jeoval Batista da Silva; Flávio de São Pedro Filho; José Moreira da Silva Neto

Abstract

This study focuses on concepts of environment on the ecological, economic and political aspects. It has as objectives collect concepts about environment in ecological, economic and political aspects (1), categorize the main basis listed in the perspective of the authors cataloged in this task (2), and analyze the concepts to understand the state of the art of the central approach (3).

It is based on the Evolutionary Theory proposed by Lamarch and Darwin, the Economic Development Theory by Schumpeter and the Eco-development  Theory by Sachs, with a focus on the natural and artificial environment. It was adopted the content analysis method supported by a bibliographic and virtual research. As a result, it offers an epistemological confrontation between ecology and economy, in the way of achieving the essential categorization for analysis and critique.

In the treatment of the results, in accordance to its specific objectives, it is indicated for the first the research of the concept  of environment, when it was found the challenge in the insertion of man without the dichotomy of degradation resulting of this ecological and economic relationship, in the second, it was categorized the ecological and economic discourse by comparing the conceptual elements obtained from authors and treaties in the face of possible patterns of regularity (a); risks and threat (b), and solutions to environmental dilemmas (c), and finally, it seeks to clarify how the science will permeate concepts to the required  mitigation in order to satisfy the dynamic equilibrium in the ecological and economic dimensions in political applicability.

This work is a contribution to those interested in environmental issues.


Publication date: 2014/03/21
ISBN: 978-88-6292-469-6
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