The Environmental Education represents today a way towards the balance and for a relation Society and Environment. It was in this context, retaking the nuances of the environmental discourses of the 1960s and 1970s, that EA is given a special role in the search for a sustainable society. In this sense, when the Palmas capital is planned and constituted, in the midst of the Cerrado, there is a whole discourse aimed at the construction of an Ecological and Environmentally Correct Capital. It is in this sense that the present study sought to identify the social and environmental representations in the context of the formation and development of Palmas, as well as how these representations were able to transform practices related to the Environment and Environmental Awareness, especially through Education Environmental. For the identification of the speeches, the history and projects of formation of the city, as well as the municipal legislation related to the master plan, the environment and the environmental education were analyzed. The data obtained through the bibliographical review and the sources consulted were treated through the analysis of the discourse that used the environmental legal hermeneutics to understand the way Environmental Education was treated within the speeches of the representations and how these discourses that gave account of Palmas to Ecological Capital, to be effectively put into practice. During the investigation, the use of ecology and a discourse environmentally responsible and sustainable by the representatives, especially by the Government, were evidenced, while very little of the concerns raised were addressed. It was also evidenced a disregard for the effectiveness and permanence of environmental education projects, which were carried out in a watertight, disconnected way to meet specific and momentary purposes. Three important temporal periods were divided for analysis of the discourses and representations, each covering about a decade of the existence of Palmas and with significant improvement along the legislation that accompanied the urban development. The role of urban space in the distance between the practices and the discourse of existing representations and the emergence of a new approach, a new program called Palmas Sustentável, still in progress, which resumes the discourse of Palmas Ecological Capital of the Early Years Of the city, although there is no change in the intentionality and the guarantee of efficiency and continuity of the Environmental Education projects.
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