Percepção ambiental das famílias da zona urbana de Vieirópolis- PB.

Abstract

Environmental issues and their perception of social actors is a means to a reflection on the practices of environmental education and responsibility, so that it is able to minimize constant and increasing environmental damages existing in specific geographical context. In this context, the objective of this research is to evaluate the perception of different social actors about the issues that affect the city of Paraiba Vieiropólis and relate to the local reality. For both, it was the use of qualitative research of exploratory and explanatory with descriptive character, in which it adopted the procedure of field research. Through structured questionnaire composed of open and closed questions. What is observed after the analyzes is that even with a disability around the understanding of local environmental issues and their interrelations, there are positive signs around such sites and potential outcomes that can be maximized, as is the case of tourism, especially if the discussions are focused on promoting dialogue between different areas of knowledge. For both are necessary practices to enable transport and to implement the visions systemic study of the environmental issue, ie practices that formulate new theories, new relationships methodological dialogue and synergy of different areas of knowledge in that area. It was evident the need to go a long way to go, with many challenges and many questions to be researched, contributing to the pursuit of environmental citizenship. Notably noted that most social actors surveyed has an environmental perception, confused, fragmented, not considered within the context of its conservation, aspects of social, economic, cultural, political-institutional, interconnected and able to have a vision more holistic that reality. The following local environmental problems were evident: lack of treatment of drinking water, lack of water, absence of public policy for solid waste (landfill appropriate and selective collection); association of garbage collectors, absence of public policy related to ecotourism , absence of interdisciplinary projects that focus on environmental awareness.