FOURTEEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL RECOVERY: AWAKENING A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS

Abstract

Considering the elevated rate of environmental degradation worldwide, and on the other hand, (i) the necessity to develop and execute projects, programs, and actions dedicated to environmental recovery (ER) and (ii) the moment we are living in (decade of Ecological Restoration established by UN), we presume that it is appropriate disseminating actions on teaching and training people on subjects related to the topic. Thus, we have the results of a period of fourteen years dedicated to teaching ER as a discipline to postgraduate students at a Brazilian public university. From 2009 to 2022, 184 students from 29 different academic backgrounds have completed the course. The course consolidates an integration of concepts related to the Recovery of Degraded Environments, providing the student the opportunity to insert concepts about ER into their academic projects, apply the concepts in their professional life, and have a different view concerning the process of environmental degradation.