Open AccessEnviromental education and citizenship
Author(s) -
Karla Aguiar Kury
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
boletim do observatório ambiental alberto ribeiro lamego
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2177-4560
pISSN - 1981-6197
DOI - 10.5935/2177-4560.20090005
Subject(s) - citizenship , environmental education , politics , order (exchange) , political science , environmental ethics , environmental quality , public relations , social responsibility , sociology , engineering ethics , business , law , engineering , philosophy , finance
This article aims to stimulate discussion on the development model adopted by the globalized world and its implications on environmental issues. The author points out the importance of public mobilization for the conservation of environmental quality, emphasizing the responsibility of educators in building strategies to overcome social inequality, as well as environmental education as a means to reestablish interpersonal and man-nature relationships, in order to prepare political citizens concerned with environmental protection and the assurance of the most fundamental right: the right to life itself.