Comunicação ambiental: estratégias de mobilização socioparticipativa para educação, informação e integração da rede socioambiental APA SUL RMBH

• Main Authors: Miguel Ângelo Andrade, André Rocha Franco, Rodrigo Gomes Tinoco, Denise de Castro Pereira, Ricardo Ferreira Ribeiro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2010-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: environmental communication; social and participatory mobilization; social networks.
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/20353/13513

This article aims at introducing and analyzing communication models used in the socio-environmental network APA SUL RMBH, an environmentally sensitive area in which polemic issues and economicinterests are involved. These models provide inter-sectorial, participative, egalitarian and dynamic dialogues and information in order to put emphasis on the mobilization that characterizes the communicative process. The definition of common purposes, social actors and their roles, the active participation of all members of the community as well as the planning for more efficiency in the process reveal strategies of mobilization which structure themselves “with” and not “for” society. In this context, the usufruct and the consolidation of effective communication tools like, for example, permanent forums for debates, informational booklet, social research, training of local staff within a virtual and high-tech structuralmodel – Portal (or Site) of the socio-environmental network APA SUL RMBH – have become a foundation for the convocation of common purposes and the establishment of social networks. Thus, the weaving and the crossing of these relationships outline an interconnected set of complementary factorsthat govern social mobilization in this socio-biodiversity area.