Redes de proximidade ambiental no Amazonas: a sociedade em rede e a produção de conhecimento a favor de práticas ambientalmente sustentáveis

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the way society connects network, and thus produces knowledge exchanges with each other, including the Amazon, State primarily known for his forests and rivers, and from these exchanges, has the ability to create relationships and establish proximity networks. Understand how new perspectives and possibilities in times of globalization generate the sharing of knowledge flows, including those focused on environmental area. In this thesis we will see how the Amazon have the ability to potentially be a state connected by communication technology, housing a network of environmental knowledge through the Secretariat of State of Education initiative to take formal education to more than 2,000 state communities. Connected communities have access to the internet and are thus in a setting conducive to the formation of an environmental knowledge network and interact, create networks that create the Amazon a collaborative unit of interaction that strengthens ties, practices and maintenance of beliefs and identities. The guiding thesis is to that network platform that connects the Amazon communities in the education scenario favors the formation of networks of environmental knowledge and proximity networks, that is, information-sharing networks and knowledge of environmental issues and networks that are established direct relations contact, favoring the production of knowledge and the construction of an integrated unit.