Investigación y educación ambiental: integración del conocimiento ecológico y del espacio geográfico en la costa del Río de la Plata, Uruguay

Abstract

INVESTIGATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: INTEGRATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE GEOGRAPHIC SPACE AT THE COAST OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA, URUGUAY.Facing the global recognition of an installed environmental crisis, Environmental Education (EA) arises as an engaged area for solving environmental problems. This is indispensable for a social transformation to revert problems towards a sustainable development. Environmental subjects require from science a bigger attention of extra-scientific elements implicit in the goals of knowledge and conservation of ecosystems, incorporating new dimensions that transcend, and may be cross-linked with, the scientific framework, and shared by society. In this work, we connect scientific results with educational proposals. These will be offered to the community through an educational portal online, being a new form of presenting and of broadcasting the scientific knowledge contributing to the environmental teaching