Our country has an enormous variety of ways of life and cultures which end up developing specific relations based on the dependence upon natural cycles, due to the fact that they are somewhat isolated. Among other characteristics, their symbols and…

This paper aims at reflecting upon our participation in environmental conflicts through responsible attitudes concerning environmental education. Its main theoretical reference is the thought of Humberto Maturana, a Chilean thinker. The text exposes Maturana’s proposals, i. e., the core of…

Based on the Program for Environmental Educatioon, approved in "Tiblisi Conference", Environmental Education is now counting on important basic lines that, however, do not descry of a methodology which orientates to an interdisciplinary practice in schools. This article analyses the…

For more than a century, the Lagoa dos Patos estuary has become an important small-scale fishery in the south of Brazil. In the last twenty years, the environmental system of small-scale fishery has collapsed, with harmful reflexes on the region’s…

This essay is based on bibliographical references of Humanities and the Applied Social Sciences. It presents propositions for enlarging the understanding of Tourism. Tourism is defined as the study of the relationship between the human displacement and permanence based in…

The present work aims especially to study at the process of developing an environmental awareness among schoolchildren of elementary schools. The study was carried out in three schools located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where we tried to identify the actions…

In this article we present the results of a socio-environmental diagnosis with approach on gender conducted in an agricultural community in the town of Loreto, located in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. This research included an approach on…

The origin, evolution and crisis of the dominant paradigm are the starting point of this paper. Furthermore, it analyses the world concepts which support the construction of this new paradigm, considering the ideas and reflections of authors Humberto Maturana, Michel…

Based on the analysis of an environmental problem regarding the hydro-resources at Conjunto Agrotécnico Visconde da Graça (CAVG), an agri-technical school, in a systemic approach, the origins of its impact on the district called Getúlio Vargas (GV) were studied. I…

Problemas dermatológicos são freqüentes em crianças. Assim sendo, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar a presença de fatores de risco para tais agravos no ambiente doméstico e averiguar o conhecimento das mães quanto ao risco oferecido pela existência de tais…