Percepção ambiental de moradores lindeiros ao Parque Nacional do Iguaçu (PNI), nos municípios de Capanema e Capitão Leônidas Marques, Estado do Paraná

Abstract

Certain conflicts endure between the Iguaçu National Park and the surrounding community, such as extractivism, fishing, poaching, and even the "colono" road. Thus, the environmental perceptions of the residents of two bordering cities to the Iguaçu National Park, Capanema and Capitão Leônidas Marques, state of Paraná, were evaluated. Sixty people, residents of the urban area, were interviewed in a non-probability sample. The responses were categorized into naturalistic, globalizing, and anthropocentric representations. Also, the criticality of participants to potential environmental impacts was categorized as low, medium and high, based on respondents' responses. In the perceptions of “environment”, there was a prevalence of globalizing responses. About "nature," the greatest amount of answers was naturalistic. As for the criticality, the globalizing perception was representative in the high criticality, as well as in the medium criticality. At low criticality, anthropocentric responses were more representative. Given the perceptions evaluated, it is understood the existence of difficulties in mitigating and solving environmental problems. As instruments to reach them, the participatory processes and the continuous development of Environmental Education projects are reiterated.