O direito ao desenvolvimento sustentável e as práticas de consumo pelas redeiras da cidade de Pelotas/RS

Abstract

The research analyses the importance of the knowledge and the practices regarding the fundamentals of the promotion of the right to Sustainable Development, which, despite remaining still with a status of principle and fundament in Brazil, increasingly shows from the understanding and adoption of its proposals an alternative so that all countries can continue to grow without the rampant abuse of natural resources and, through this, preserve it. It is through the understanding of Sustainable Development that the perception of the principle of sustainable consumption arises, with an essential role to achieve the purposes listed by Sustainable Development. With the understanding that consumption practices without due environmental care contribute to the scarcity of natural resources and, consequently, generate higher pollution levels, it is necessary to elaborate public policies that encourage the population and raise their awareness to change their production patterns and consumption. Through the adoption of sustainable practices, there will be collaboration with sustainable development and with life itself on the planet. Consumers who are aware that in their daily choices they can generate greater or lesser environmental damage, and that through small actions they can contribute to a society that uses only the necessary natural resources, will influence the incentive of sustainable production practices. However, as was already mentioned, for this to happen, government actions, also called public policies, will be necessary. In this vein, it is understood that the labor activities of sustainable production practices generate, consequently, sustainable consumption. In this way, women artisans who practice sustainable production and generate sustainable consumption, albeit at the local level, work in harmony with the fundamentals listed by the Sustainable Development. To verify this statement, the two aforementioned theories (sustainable development and consumption) will be applied to the women’s collective of Colônia Z-3, in the city of Pelotas, namely the Redeiras collective. From the start, it is assumed that the Redeiras, in the practice of their manual works - handicrafts utilizing used and discarded fishing nets - develop a sustainable economic practice promoting Sustainable Development. This research has the intent of demonstrating that the right to sustainable development is incorporated by the practices of the Redeiras. For the fulfillment of this research, the methodology used includes the method of inductive approach as a line of reasoning, the method of monographic procedure and the Technique of Bibliographic and Documental Research, in addition to semi-structured interviews.