Educação ambiental e a sustentabilidade da cadeia apícola de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

The study brings into focus a critical reflection on environmental education within an interdisciplinary and cross-sectional view, and sustainable governance of beekeeping chain, with a systemic and integrated approach. Can be considered as an emerging theme, which requires the transition from conventional to organic production, innovation, creativity, and a new rationality in human- nature relations. The qualitative and quantitative method was used to make these theoretical - reflective inquiry. The data were obtained using primary and secondary research. It is known that bees play a crucial and indispensable role in providing environmental services, ensuring the assets and liabilities mitigating the ecosystem. Environmental awareness is a prerequisite for a new paradigm in thinking and acting in beekeeping chain, thus linked to the multidimensional view of sustainability. The management of sustainable beekeeping chain involves a cyclical and structural prospective design, with local actions in front of a world in which the requirements in the conformity of products, market opportunities, social and environmental consequences are globalized . This fact requires cooperation, cohesion and more daring and visionary positioning, by public and private sector in approach to the issue under study.