APA Chapada do Araripe: direito, educação ambiental e sustentabilidade

Abstract

In this dissertation, the author discusses environmental education, conservation units and law as instruments that can be used in favor of local sustainable development. The aim is to find common ground between instruments analyzed so that they can be used jointly in favor of improving the quality of life and strengthening the work of public servants and the community involved with environmental issues. This is a case study, starting from the analysis of practices in environmental education encompassed by APA Araripe region. For both, there was an interdisciplinary effort to provide general information about the area the reader, approaching biophysical and social aspects. We tried to carry out a survey and evaluation of the main activities focused on environmental education in the region since 1988, mainly in the municipalities of Bodocó, Crato and Garden. At the same time we sought legal instruments in order to facilitate its understanding by all those involved with the Environmental Education in Protected Areas. So besides a ransom of history of environmental education in the region, it is intended that knowledge of the existence and scope of the laws may make it more effective and efficient practices both as standards.