Os conceitos de ambiente, meio ambiente e natureza no contexto da temática ambiental: definindo significados

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Job Antonio Garcia [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Cavassan, Osmar [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/GDLA/article/view/5149; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/135129
• topic: Operational environment; Representation of nature; Perceived world; Environmental education; Ambiente operacional; Representação da natureza; Mundo percebido; Educação ambiental

We present some clarifications that enable us to identify differences between the expressions nature, the environment and environment. This is not an epistemological approach, but rather reflections on these expressions refer and the implications for environmental issues and hence to Science Teaching. The nature was understood as a complex of real entities, which are capable to be thinking through perception. This same entity when is represented by a mind, become what we call the environment. This expression, in turn, is characterized not only by adding the environments species that are known, but to be a human abstraction. When we consider the uniqueness of each species and organism, which in this environment is inserted, we call environment, this is, the elements that can be seen and on which the organism can act. Thus, we seek to develop a concept broader of environment, which is not restricted to the human species.