A educação ambiental e o empoderamento no contexto do licenciamento ambiental das atividades marítimas de petróleo e gás

Abstract

This dissertation had the purpose of discussing the evaluation methodology of oil & gas Environmental Education Projects (EEP) as an environmental licensing requirement. Furthermore, it aimed to shine a new perspective on EEP’s evaluation process, seeking alternatives from Social Development Projects (focused on empowerment) and presenting a compilation of suggestions from existing literature. The research showed that the EEP’s evaluation methodology has evolved significantly since 2010, but there’s still some discussion and experimentation regarding it. As such, further research is required to establish quantitative and qualitative indicators that can measure community critical and political participation. With regard to Social Development Projects, in spite the monitoring and evaluation process’ limitations and the fact that the field is constantly evolving, greater field experience may bring contributions to the proceeding currently utilized on EEP. Thereby, a few directives may be incorporated by the evaluation practices on this field, such as the logical model, the problem tree and the spider diagram. Concerning the suggestions from existing literature to evaluate EEP, this study highlights the methodology created by Pocho (2011) to evaluate social programs from public policies, which is itself a consistent basis for discussion of an institutional evaluation system. Lastly, it’s important to highlight that the key factor to the success of the evaluation process is the selection and use of indicators. In this sense, the use of experimental indicators, open questions and tools such as “life stories” or “timelines and chronologies” is of great importance. The study concludes that, if evaluation methods are to evolve, it’s essential to experiment, seek and discuss methods and indicators currently used as well as possible contributions that other knowledge from other fields may provide. To do so, CGPEG has a fundamental stimulatory and leadership role on this process.