A contribuição da economia verde associada a educação ambiental para sustentabilidade socioambiental de mercados públicos. Estudo de caso: mercado público de Casa Amerela - Recife/PE

Abstract

The present study seeks to analyze how the principles of Green Economy can mitigate the environmental problem into public markets, using Environmental Education as accelerator in debates involving economics, social and environmental relationships. To made this research, it was chosen the Casa Amarela’s public market, located in Recife – PE as study case, because it is a spot of cultural and historical pluralism, which has a great influence in the neighborhood due to this business activity and to be considered Recife’s cultural heritage. We have as general goal analyze how the principles of the Green Economy can contribute to the socioenvironmental sustainability in public markets, allied to a proposal of Environmental Education. This is a qualitative research that seeks diagnose the environmental impacts existing into the Market studied, through questionnaires with the licensees, besides the attainment of an interview with the Market’s manager. The activities of diagnose and Environmental Education were realized in partnership with the IFPE’ Public Markets Research Group, in scope of the project “Ação Interdisciplinar para Sustentabilidade de Mercados Públicos da Região Metropolitana do Recife – PE”. The results obtained shows a lack of organization of the boxes, problems related to the management of solid waste and difficulty of comprehension of the economic aspects of capitalist order immersed in their activity. In this context, the model of Green Economy, mainly, the principles to introduce sustainable practices, the proper treatment of garbage, the incentive to new green industrial sectors and chains of recycling, can contribute to the ecologic balance and the economic growth, since it has the effective participation of the licensees, managers, public policy, society, partnerships with private entities and nongovernmental, economic incentives and methodological support.