Pensamento ecológico como base para repensar o perfil de formação do tecnólogo em Gestão Ambiental na Bahia

Abstract

The environmental impacts caused by industrial enterprise or human activities generate the need of environmental licensing, an administrative procedure, fixed by the law, which involves professionals from different areas of knowledge, including the environmental management technologist to formulate the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) / Environmental Impact Report (EIR) as one of the its steps. In order to understand how the environmental manager could guide the preparation of more effective EIS/EIR to protect the environment, I examined how this activity is regulated by the current laws as well as the demand for such professional; this latter was obtained through direct data, by mapping the number of specific companies in this field in the state of Bahia, and through indirect data, measuring the number of job offers. In addition to that I analyzed the professional profile of an environmental management technologist supported by the syllabus and curriculum presented on the courses offered in the state. Therefore I could identify gaps in the curriculum, and from these gaps I established guidelines to determine a new professional profile, using a methodology based on the applied ecological thinking and ProblemBased Learning (PBL). In this approach the educational institutions are responsible for the curriculum improvements, considering the fact that the current graduation is focused on more administrative jobs or little based on the applied ecological thinking to solve environmental issues. PBL is suggested as a methodological tool for its objective and dynamic nature applied to problem solving which is ideal for these short-term courses (five semesters). Concerning the applied ecological thinking it is recommended that graduation schools revise the concept of ecology that is being taught in their courses in order to make it more functional and able to contribute for the understanding of the impacts caused by any enterprise insertion and also the dynamic of the relations presented in the environment.