Análise dos parques naturais de Canela/RS com ênfase nas atividades de educação ambiental

Abstract

In this monograph was analyzed the environmental education activities performed in the Natural Paks of Canela/RS, including its promotional materials and its relationship with the “Educommunication” and Sustainable Tourism. Thus, initially were identified the parks with relevant natural characteristics and developed a questionnaire that was answered through email by their administrators. The questionnaire is composed of 15 questions which aimed to assess broad and restricted issues about the area of the parks, like location and premises, management, public, conservational aspects, social relations and environmental education practices. A matrix with 53 criteria for the leaflets analysis was created, with were evaluated by the author. Of the 17 national parks listed, 10 completed the questionnaire and only seven had promotional materials. From this study it was found that there is a much unpreparedness in relation to the administration of the parks on their conservation and management. There is also evidence of lack of knowledge about the abiotic, biotic and socioeconomic facts of the parks, which most don’t have any management plan. There is a deep unpreparedness of the directors in relation to the concepts of sustainable tourism and to their own environmental education practices, making use of these terms indiscriminately as green-marketing. In relation to the leaflets, it was found that all of them were well below the proposed criteria, without the three focus of analysis (General Information, Design and Environmental Education). In order to address this deficit, we propose a Guide to Sustainable Tourism for the national parks of this city.