Abstract

CHINCHILLA MONTES, Marcos. Environment and construction of citizenship. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.6, n.3, pp.181-201. ISSN 1997-4043.

ABSTRACT Traditionally, the environmental issue has been addressed with eminently biological criteria, is highlighting the risks of environmental degradation, or the need for political and practical mechanisms to collaborate with their sustainable use. While a social discussion around this topic is of long standing, it was not until about three decades that begins to generate a debate, it was conceived that social participation is vital to advance the development and conservation of the environment in a responsible and sustainable way. At the start of the 90s of last century generated an intense discussion on the concept of citizenship and their social processes. The conservative and bourgeois visions of citizenship make it a product to ensure governance, it is conceived as a "limit" that defines and determines the areas of social participation of the majority. Under the environmental issue, social participation has been deepening, however, is often questioned whether these processes are building citizen participation, or instead, if they come to reinforce conservative social participation mechanisms.

Keywords : environment; human rights; citizenship; social participation.

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