ÁGORA, ISSN 0103-3557, Florianópolis v.21, n. 43, 2011  

RESUMO
Atualmente, as notícias de eventos severos são divulgadas quase que instantaneamente e os impactos de tais danos induzem a reflexões sobre a necessidade de rápidas medidas mitigadoras. O estudo desses eventos e suas reincidências tornam as ações mais eficazes…

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…

Diving  in  the dynamic Amazonian social  life, ruled by  the temporality of  waters, the article follows, through dialogues between History and Literature, marajoara populations’ ways of  being and living,  highlighting  their African/Indigenous  heritage  and  local knowledge, which  resulted  from  cultural…

The word ‘Bioethics’ presents, from the beginning, a double aspect. It characterizes a specific discourse, denotes several practices, assumes academic facets, generates knowledge disputes theoretical space, at the same time that occupies clinics, cares for the living together of human…

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…