Environmental education and sustainability- vila Brazil case in Oiapoque county, Amapá-Brazil

Authors

  • José Mauro Palhares Universidade Federal do Amapá - UNIFAP

Keywords:

educação ambiental, sustentabilidade, Vila Brasil, Oiapoque

Abstract

This recent paper tries to raise, in a reduce dway, some question saboutan environmental education and sustainability on general historiclist in which it contains an ecological view occurred in the last decade sof past century until this present time. Vila Brazil is a district be longing to Oiapoque County that is located in Tumucumaque Mountain National Park. This place has some adaptation processes focused on the yieldof sustainable in come through ecological tourism. ICMBio permits the local population to use the natural sources in reason to her survival, however in sustainable way with out interfering in nature dynamic. From the foregoing it was possible to infer that i) the Village Brazil has potential for tourism development, especially community-based may allow the understanding and awareness of this activity aimed at sustainability; and ii) the local population showed interest in organizing and conquer the tourist activities, which are in the community, considering the importance of tourism self-management, environmental planning, sustainable vision. This fielder search was realize dwith the contribution by academic professional sof Geography course from Binational Campus of Oiapoque and it was worke dwith digital camera, GPS and the interviews to local habitants.  The done results will contribute to a planning and a management of Vila Brazil territory thatit’ sin cluded in a conservation unit.

Author Biography

  • José Mauro Palhares, Universidade Federal do Amapá - UNIFAP
    Professor Adjunto do Curso de Geografia da Universidade Federal do Amapá – UNIFAP Campus Binacional Oiapoque

Published

2017-03-04

Issue

Section

Artigos

How to Cite

Palhares, J. M. (2017). Environmental education and sustainability- vila Brazil case in Oiapoque county, Amapá-Brazil. REDE - Revista Eletrônica Do PRODEMA, 10(2). https://www.revistarede.ufc.br/rede/article/view/416