School of Nature Conservation:
An Experience in Education
for the Sustainable Development
of the Northern Coast of the State
of Paraná, Brazil
Solange Regina Latenek dos Santos, Liz Buck Silva, Ricardo Aguiar Borges
and Eloy Fassi Casagrande
Abstract Originally, the Atlantic Forest Biome occupied an area of 130,973,638
hectares, equivalent to about 15% of the Brazilian territory. Due to the exploratory
development in the country, there are only 7% remaining of this vegetation, which still
suffers from degradation. In this context, inserted in one of the last continuous remnants of Mata Atlântica, are the municipalities of the north coast of Paraná, inhabited
by thousands of people. The existence of protected areas in the region (Conservation
Units) and the desire for territorial development are sometimes seen as antagonistic
and generate conflicts of interest and paralysis of actions. This article brings some
results from the School of Nature Conservation, an experience developed with young
residents of the region in order to build a network of actors to promote the dialogue
between nature conservation and sustainable development. The document describes
the context of local conflicts and the immersion-based educational methodology in
Conservation Units used by the project to mobilize the community, researchers and
managers of conservation units for dialogue and the collective construction of a
map of wealth that promotes the sustainable development for the region, taking into
account cultural and environmental demands.
Keywords Environmental education · Conservation units · Sustainable
development
S. R. Latenek dos Santos (B) · E. F. Casagrande
Postgraduate Program in Technology and Society PPGTE, Federal Technological
University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: solange.latenek@gmail.com
E. F. Casagrande
e-mail: eloy.casagrande@gmail.com
L. B. Silva · R. A. Borges
Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education—SPVS, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: liz@spvs.org.br
R. A. Borges
e-mail: ricardo.borges@spvs.org.br
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_48
783
An Experience in Education
for the Sustainable Development
of the Northern Coast of the State
of Paraná, Brazil
Solange Regina Latenek dos Santos, Liz Buck Silva, Ricardo Aguiar Borges
and Eloy Fassi Casagrande
Abstract Originally, the Atlantic Forest Biome occupied an area of 130,973,638
hectares, equivalent to about 15% of the Brazilian territory. Due to the exploratory
development in the country, there are only 7% remaining of this vegetation, which still
suffers from degradation. In this context, inserted in one of the last continuous remnants of Mata Atlântica, are the municipalities of the north coast of Paraná, inhabited
by thousands of people. The existence of protected areas in the region (Conservation
Units) and the desire for territorial development are sometimes seen as antagonistic
and generate conflicts of interest and paralysis of actions. This article brings some
results from the School of Nature Conservation, an experience developed with young
residents of the region in order to build a network of actors to promote the dialogue
between nature conservation and sustainable development. The document describes
the context of local conflicts and the immersion-based educational methodology in
Conservation Units used by the project to mobilize the community, researchers and
managers of conservation units for dialogue and the collective construction of a
map of wealth that promotes the sustainable development for the region, taking into
account cultural and environmental demands.
Keywords Environmental education · Conservation units · Sustainable
development
S. R. Latenek dos Santos (B) · E. F. Casagrande
Postgraduate Program in Technology and Society PPGTE, Federal Technological
University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: solange.latenek@gmail.com
E. F. Casagrande
e-mail: eloy.casagrande@gmail.com
L. B. Silva · R. A. Borges
Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education—SPVS, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: liz@spvs.org.br
R. A. Borges
e-mail: ricardo.borges@spvs.org.br
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_48
783