A educação ambiental e o turismo sustentável no município de Silveira Martins, RS

Abstract

Tourism is the sector of the economy which fastest increase in the world in recent years. Tourism, like other activities, has positive and negative aspects. In other words, in the same way that contributes to the socioeconomic and cultural development can also contribute to environmental degradation and lack of local identity when poorly planned. Thus, the objective of the research was to analyze the environmental education and sustainable tourism in the town Silveira Martins / RS. This research, developed in 2014, was supported in the first instance, by theoretical and photographic survey. After that, were applied ten questionnaires to teachers and applied interviews to two local principals, one of state and one of municipal school. In addition, the Silveira Martin’s Secretary of Culture, Tourism, Sport and Events was interviewed. According to the research was verified that in schools where are a concern about the environmental education, teachers work the environmental issue linking subjects between courses, in order to integrate themes, starting from the practice of interdisciplinarity.