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Deserto na comunicação: as relações entre ciência e mídia na desertificação do semiárido brasileiro
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FERREIRA, Luana Carlos. Deserto na comunicação: as relações entre ciência e mídia na desertificação do semiárido brasileiro. 2017. 68f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente) - Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.
Autor
Ferreira, Luana Carlos
Resumen
Being a serious environmental issue, the addressing of desertification relies on scientific
understanding of its complex ecological, social and climatic relations. Caatinga is a unique
biome in the Semi-arid region of Brazil still uncharted by science and its soil fertility and
biodiversity face serious threat as desertification advances and jeopardizes food and water
resources for thousands of people, which leads to migration influx. Governmental response
has not been able to yield substantial actions to tackle the issue and society unfortunately
seems not to sense the urge of such matter. One way to promote social engagement about the
subject has to do with propagating related information in spite of political and economical
interests lurking the narrative of mass media in Brazil. The focus of this paper is to analyze
the narrative of Brazilian press regarding desertification, also including a view on science
press. A panorama of scientific production was made through scientometrical analysis of
scientific papers published between 2005-2014 and content analyses of news and reports
printed and published byFolha de São Paulo from 1994 through 2015. An increase of
scientific production for disciplinary purposes was noticed, although discontinued eventually
as access to most papers on major national and international databases remain unreachable.
On printed newspaper, approach to the subject is rare and often happens in a decontextualized
or catastrophic-toned manner, not allowing space for opposite views, hence offering little
voice to scientists and almost none to society. Thus, it becomes necessary to invest in long
term multidisciplinary, solution-oriented, researches that deepen comprehension of subject
matter and enable society to take part in scientific discussion as well as formulating policies
and managing strategies to tackle desertification with the aid of propagating continuous,
critical and contextualized information.