Etnobotânica como ferramenta de avaliação na difusão dos conhecimentos: relação dos jovens e o programa socioambiental do JBRJ

Abstract

The Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro / Brazil (JBRJ) is an institution that cares about social and environmental responsibility by preparing and serving the community on their needs through continuing education programs in Botany. Ethnobotany, like science, is tool has been used in the evaluation of vocational course in gardening. Assists in qualitative and quantitative assessment of tacit and academic acquired by gardening course graduates of the Social Program Education and Labor JBRJ knowledge. Thus, the selection of graduates was made in semistructured interviews and non-probabilistic methodology of the snowball. The results were compared with Brazilian legal frameworks and data obtained in the search for technological forecasting. We interviewed 76 graduates, with 445 citations in 82 species belonging to 40 families who brought a unique diversity. Demonstrated that there is an emerging need for enhancement of urban ethnobotany, for understanding the human-plantenvironment relationship. The botanical gardens are established as enabling environment for the dissemination of such knowledge and to promote the conservation of plant resources and cultural values among scientific and technical tacit.