Environmentalism as sociocultural interdiscipline and complex thought

Abstract

This article analyzes the socio-cultural environmentalism as interdisciplinary and complex thinking, which means understanding it as an area of knowledge related to other fields of social sciences. This implies multirreferenciated vision of social systems, culture and nature, resulting in a construction of heterogeneous symbolic constituents. As an expression of this complexity takes on environmental thinking developed in the Brazilian’s context, in its multisectoral aspects, characterized by the involvement of multiple actors and social, cultural and political discourses. In short, it is a social thinking which involves the construction of meaning and collective identity within a shared complex marked by the redefinition of meanings and values.