Legal Frameworks for Environmental Education in Brazil

Abstract

For centuries, the planet has been going through a process of degradation that compromises the future of the generations and ecosystems that make up nature. In this context, environmental education is pointed out by researchers from all over the world as the only possible solution for the awareness of subjects and social transformation. From this outcome, it arises the proposal to include environmental education in formal spaces. This article carries out a systematic analysis of the bibliographies that deal with the introduction of environmental education in educational policies in Brazil, in addition to investigating the main guidelines of environmental education in Brazil. It is a descriptive article on the trajectory of environmental education in Brazil and the world. Brazil has a legal framework and guidance for the effectiveness of environmental education in the various spaces of formal and informal training of the most advanced in the world, necessary to make its regulation, monitoring, and enforcement.