Environmental risks and urbanization coasts: theoretical and methodological assumptions

Abstract

The environmental questions are in the center of the concerns of all the fields of knowing in our society contemporary. These questions lead economic-political, social and cultural space-secular unfoldings, that materialize in a gamma of phenomena, resultants of the shock of the relation environmental and man/nature and society. In special, it interests to study the formation of environmental risks, in the city of Londrina. In this direction, one arises adjacent problematic, that is the question of the urbanization cost, decurrent many times, of one inadequate urban politics, resulting in some types of risks for the population. It is intended to trace some theoretical and methodological assumptions, that will lead the research, approaching subjects as the risks of modernity, the life quality, the culture and the environmental ethics, in the process of the interdisciplinary practical, advancing for a “knowledge dialog”.