Environmental knowledge

Sustainability, Rationality, Complexity, Power

Abstract

In the book, Saber Ambiental: sustainability, rationality, complexity and power, published in 2001 by publisher vozes,
the author approaches the environmental issue from the perspective of building environmental rationality, highlighting
the importance of environmental knowledge in this process, in addition to the movements environmentalists and the construction
of citizenship. The holistic approach to environmental knowledge is highlighted. The book is structured in eleven chapters in which
Leff discusses the issue of environmental knowledge initially from the perspective of building the idea of ​​sustainable development,
the contradiction between environmental and capitalist rationality and later an approach with regard to environmental movements,
citizenship and the importance the construction of an environmental knowledge.