Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area

The present article aims at achieving a diagnosis of the major actions of the environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that actuate in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area. It also studies the relations established by these organizations to build a place socially fair and environmental sustaina...

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Main Authors: Cleusa Mara WOLSKY CARNEIRO, Sony Cortese CANEPARO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2010-04-01
Series:Revista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise
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Online Access:http://revistas.ufpr.br/raega/article/view/15231
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description The present article aims at achieving a diagnosis of the major actions of the environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that actuate in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area. It also studies the relations established by these organizations to build a place socially fair and environmental sustainable. In order to do that the main activities of these organizations in the last decades were raised through interviews with their representatives, visitations to the central office and verification of the institutional documents available. The paper explains that the NGOs search to make actions that raise a sustainable model of development, since they understand that the State reduced the participation in this sector and that the people gave them power for it. To achieve so, they need to create a net of relationships between the community, the private and public agents and the NGOs, with the objective of learn the problems, point at the solutions and to develop environmental interventions models to legitimize their actions. That way, the territoriality that these organizations seek to create depend of integrated decisions and of a continuous search of people, information and mobilization, to set up news socials actors and to ensure the development of the activities of these organizations.
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spelling doaj.art-59b0526f9f0d44d69f57b292dd7b16d92022-12-21T17:48:53ZengUniversidade Federal do ParanáRevista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise1516-41362177-27382010-04-0119010.5380/raega.v19i0.1523110441Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan AreaCleusa Mara WOLSKY CARNEIRO0Sony Cortese CANEPARO1UFPRUFPRThe present article aims at achieving a diagnosis of the major actions of the environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that actuate in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area. It also studies the relations established by these organizations to build a place socially fair and environmental sustainable. In order to do that the main activities of these organizations in the last decades were raised through interviews with their representatives, visitations to the central office and verification of the institutional documents available. The paper explains that the NGOs search to make actions that raise a sustainable model of development, since they understand that the State reduced the participation in this sector and that the people gave them power for it. To achieve so, they need to create a net of relationships between the community, the private and public agents and the NGOs, with the objective of learn the problems, point at the solutions and to develop environmental interventions models to legitimize their actions. That way, the territoriality that these organizations seek to create depend of integrated decisions and of a continuous search of people, information and mobilization, to set up news socials actors and to ensure the development of the activities of these organizations.http://revistas.ufpr.br/raega/article/view/15231Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs)AmbientalismoRedes Sociais
spellingShingle Cleusa Mara WOLSKY CARNEIRO
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Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
Revista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise
Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs)
Ambientalismo
Redes Sociais
title Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
title_full Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
title_fullStr Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
title_full_unstemmed Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
title_short Environmental non-governmental organizations – The actions of civil society in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area
title_sort environmental non governmental organizations the actions of civil society in curitiba and metropolitan area
topic Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs)
Ambientalismo
Redes Sociais
url http://revistas.ufpr.br/raega/article/view/15231
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