Percepção ambiental e imaginário dos moradores do município de Jardim/MS.

Abstract

The objective of the work it was the study of the environmental perception of the inhabitants of the agricultural and urban zones of Jardim, MS. Initiates with the construction of a reflective way on the phenomenon of the perception and the its connections with aspects as the imaginary, the topofilia and the biofilia. The study it is developed in the form of participant research and involves proprietors, administrators and inhabitants of farms, to the long one of the Rio da Prata, and members of different segments of the urban community, as representative of quarters, religious leaders, professors and pupils. The metodology include: verbal history, of which it was detached indications of topofilia, information on the description of the local development, with emphasis in the landscape changes, environmental interactive, environmental quality and conscience for preservation; series of images for collection of the preference of landscape; mental maps for identification of pointers of ambient quality and series of identification of species, for knowledge of biota. The analysis of the data, discloses a deep linking of the community with its environment and points to a potential of participative planning of the local development.