Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-08-01T19:34:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Bruno Fraga Fernandes.pdf: 8234668 bytes, checksum: 6c57c2848af51f0672bd6dca5ac2d0f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-01T19:34:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Bruno Fraga Fernandes.pdf: 8234668 bytes, checksum: 6c57c2848af51f0672bd6dca5ac2d0f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-05 / CAPES / The purpose of this study is to analyze the consolidation of the Ecology in Brazil, starting from the contribution of two national scientific institutions in the foundation and systematization of a certain ecological thinking, making a historical research at the National Museum and at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. We defend the thesis that pioneering work in ecology were carried out at the mentioned institutions and that the researchers involved actively contributed to the consolidation and institutionalization of the ecological area in Brazil, between the years 1944 and 1976. This approach gave priority to the dialogue between the social history, environmental history and the history of science, by addressing the links between the social-political context of the First Republic and the Vargas period with the emergency of the ecological issues in Brazil. Subsequently, the decades of 1950-70 represented a period in which the development of ecological knowledge by scientists and national researchers analyzed in this study occurred in parallel to the appearance of environmental movements in increasing scale. Therefore, we call attention to the fact that the development of the Brazilian ecological thinking is related to institutional demands and its ecological diversity, while tropical country and with its own flora and fauna. As to the fact that the use we give to natural resources associated with social issues, is elucidator of a country possessing extreme social inequalities and always dependent on these resources. The weight of misuse lies directly on the part of the population most directly dependent on them, the most socially vulnerable. Historical studies on the environmental issue, linked to the different dimensions of scientific knowledge, only have to add the cognitive construction of possible articulations of the social process. / O objetivo deste trabalho ? analisar a consolida??o da Ecologia no Brasil, a partir da contribui??o de duas institui??es cient?ficas nacionais na forma??o e sistematiza??o de um determinado pensamento ecol?gico, realizando uma investiga??o hist?rica no Museu Nacional e no Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Defendemos a tese de que foram realizados trabalhos pioneiros em Ecologia nas institui??es mencionadas e que os pesquisadores envolvidos contribu?ram ativamente para a consolida??o e institucionaliza??o da ?rea ecol?gica no Brasil, entre os anos de 1944 e 1976. Esta abordagem priorizou o di?logo entre a hist?ria social, a hist?ria ambiental e a hist?ria das ci?ncias, ao abordar as articula??es entre o contexto pol?tico-social da Primeira Rep?blica e do per?odo Varguista com a emerg?ncia das quest?es ecol?gicas no Brasil. Posteriormente, as d?cadas de 1950-70 representaram um per?odo em que o desenvolvimento do conhecimento ecol?gico por parte de cientistas e pesquisadores nacionais analisados no presente trabalho ocorreu paralelamente ? emerg?ncia de movimentos ambientalistas em escala crescente. Sendo assim, chamamos a aten??o para o fato de que o desenvolvimento do pensamento ecol?gico brasileiro est? relacionado ?s demandas institucionais e a sua diversidade ecol?gica, enquanto pa?s tropical e com uma fauna e flora pr?prias. Assim tamb?m como ao fato de que o uso que damos aos recursos naturais, associados ?s quest?es sociais, ? elucidador de um pa?s possuidor de desigualdades sociais extremadas e sempre dependentes destes recursos. O ?nus do mau uso recai diretamente sobre a parte da popula??o mais diretamente dependente deles, as mais fragilizadas socialmente. Estudos hist?ricos sobre a quest?o ambiental, vinculados ?s diferentes dimens?es de conhecimento cient?fico, s? t?m a acrescentar na constru??o cognitiva das articula??es poss?veis do processo social.