ÉTICA AMBIENTAL, ECOPEDAGOGIA E CONSERVAÇÃO DA NATUREZA: PERSPECTIVAS E INTERCONEXÕES

Abstract

The environmental ethics criticizes the logic of utilitarian nature, which does not consider the intrinsic value of the nature. Therefore, it is necessary to attach scientific advances and other technological areas to ethic principles. The main objective of this study is to analyze concepts and theoretical perspectives, in attempt to evidence connections between environmental ethics, ecopedagogy and conservation biology. This study is characterized as a qualitative research. The method adopted is a literature review and a conceptual ordering according to authors and actions. In addition, the hypothetical-deductive method was used, and the content analysis. It was observed that predatory mentality originates ecological ethic discussions, and that environmental ethic is the origin of the need to conserve nature, the only coherent position about preserving the environment. This study pointed that ethic discussions will never stop being anthropological, but need to stop being anthropocentric. As soon, the ecological ethic should be biocentric, in which central objective is life and the value of the nature for itself. This perspective of human being isolation from rest of the world must be substituted by a holistic point of view. Therefore, the ecopedagogy is a system that can make possible sustainable transformations in society, breaking through anthropocentric perspectives, developing the planetary citizenship. It demonstrates correlation between ecopedagogy, conservation and sustainability. It concludes that there is necessity to develop education projects related to this specific perspective. There is also the need to create ethic legal systems witch interconnect the presented concepts.