Desastres ambientais e educação ambiental: análise das pesquisas acadêmicas no banco de tese do Projeto ENARTE no período de 1981 a 2012

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the meanings attributed to environmental disasters in the Brazilian academic production in Environmental Education. The central problem of this work is how the debate about environmental disasters in the research analyzed is present and its implications for the process of "deterritorialization in environmental disasters", referring to the loss of territories by vulnerable population affected by the disaster. Besides this problem, some issues emerge to be discussed: a) What are the common problems in environmental disasters. b) Is it possible to classify environmental disasters according to the phenomenon of deterritorialization? The relevance of this study in Environmental Education is due to its importance in studies of disasters not only in its natural dimension, but also in its consequences in a social and cultural context of a Latin American reality marked by intense social and economic asymmetries that result in violence and environmental injustice. This research presents a qualitative approach of studies in Education. Regarding the procedures adopted for data collection, the work is considered bibliographical and documentary, classified as a "State of the Art" study, whose documentary corpus is investigated using content analysis. As the main results, three categories were identified, with topics emerging from the exhaustive analysis of the material, namely: Characteristics and Consequences of Environmental Disasters; Risk Management in Environmental Disasters; Origins and vulnerability of / in Environmental Disasters. As a conclusion, we identified a tendency in the research scenario (theses and dissertations) to discuss environmental disasters beyond a strictly naturalistic or social approach, but through an approach that considers the social and natural dimensions of disasters linked to political issues; another conclusion of this work is the absence of a deeper discussion of the process of deterritorialization associated with natural disasters, a fundamental theme for the Brazilian reality according to the theoretical presuppositions of the present work.