ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AS PRACTICAL TOOL IN ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT OF TROPICAL SOLAR SALTWORKS-BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE
Along the Brazilian coast line, only in the northern coast of the state of the Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) are located the greatest companies of salt of the country , mainly in the borders of their estuaries. The saltworks that are located in that stretch of the Brazilian coast are responsible by 95％ for the marine salt produced and exported in the country. The salt industry of the Rio Grande do Norte goes through a gradual process of modernization, demanding a more competitive product in the international market, mainly in purity and quality grade; further on, the preoccupation today is to obtain a product that is the fruit of a suitable environmental management and with respect to the environmental norms. Describing their civil servants to understand better the operation of the ecosystem hyper-saline in which they are inserted, the salt companies located inside the borders of the estuary of the River Apodi/Mossoro (Brazil), invested in the training in environmental education for all leaders and civil servants. The trainings realized in each salrwork presented two different methodologies, composed of expositive classes and practical exercises. Those courses are developed next to the chosen public of leaders and technicians, and also with civil servants of the salt. During the exhibitions, the following contents in the practical exercises are boarded related topics with theory about the hyper saline environments (salt work like ecosystem; ecosystem of mangrove, etc.); and in the practical exercises, the diverse organisms would be exhibited that compose the saline ecosystem, surrounding the knowledge about the ecology of the hyper-saline environments. Like practical result of the works, about 90％ (near 3,000 civil servants and leaders) were in that course of the saltworks located in the borders of the Apodi/Mossoro estuary own practically all personnel enabled of the knowledge and experiences about the environmental questions that surround the ecosystem hypersaline, the mangrove swamps, the estuary where the saltworks are located. During the courses, employees learnt the ecological importance that this ecosystem represents for the estuary as well as for the production of the salt.
viability management and saltworks
R.M.ROCHA D.F.S.COSTA D.H.M.MEDEIROS F.A.M.SANTOS L.F.SILVA
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Semi-arid Ecology Laboratory Rua Joaquim Gregorio, s.n.Penedo.CEP.59.300-000.Caico.Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
国际会议
9th International Symposium on Salt(第九届世界盐业大会)
北京
英文
877-881
2009-09-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）