Environmental Education as an Instrument for the Sustainability of the Paleoagroecosystems
Keywords:
Education, Environment, Agroecossystem, PaleoecosystemAbstract
The development of humanity throughout history has greatly impacted the natural resources of the Earth, jeopardizing the survival of mankind that lived for a millennium in harmony with the natural ecosystems. This paper started because of the concern that has been verified from the degradation processes of paleoagroecosystems. This study intended to analyze how the environmental education contributed as an instrument for the sustainability, standing out for the socio-environmental sustainability. It is based on the dialectic method, and has a qualitative approach, with a descriptive and exploratory bias, constituting a bibliographic research. The results show the necessity of an increase of knowledge about the relevance of the environment education as a theory and practice, intending to sensitize the society to suppress the impacts on ecosystems and paleoagroecosystems.