Environmental Education as a Mechanism of Globalization: Opening or Closing Spaces for Resident Action in Cerro Azul Meambar National Park

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Environmental Education as a Mechanism of
Globalization Opening or Closing Spaces for
Resident Action in Cerro Azul Meambar National
Park

• Carylanna Taylor Bahamondes
• Development Sociology

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Global Environmental Discourse
Local Response
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Available Data by Level

• Academic publications, abstracts, accords
• Funding agreements (USAID, WWF), Honduran laws
• Project Documentation, radio transcripts, handful
  interviews guards administrators
• Cerro Azul Meambar National Park, Honduras
• 50 in depth interviews
• 600 survey (Pfeffer, 1998)

• Global Discourse on Water
• Mechanism of Transfer from Global to National
  (Funding)
• Mechanism of Transfer from Global/National to
  Local (Environmental Education)
• Local Response

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E.E. vs. Resident Views of Park Benefits

• Park benefits El Cajon nation
• Biodiversity
• W/O forests long summers suffocating climate
• Water will dry up
• Dont cut
• Dont burn
• Erosion control

• More forest (wood)
• Protection of water sources
• Drinking water
• No desert
• Better climate / pure air
• Good health
• Water for grazing
• Wildlife prospers
• Water for nation

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Water Residents Rank Importance
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Erosion Residents Rank Importance
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Residents Respond by Changing Focus potable
water not dams

• Conservation and Energy for whom?
• Back Talk
• Water quality
• Potable water
• Community Action
• Protecting Water Sources
• Juntas Administrativas de Agua

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Consultation

• How to convincingly compare these bubbles of
  information to show that EE and funding are
  mechanisms of discourse transfer
• How to fairly portray resident responses from
  secondary data, especially given my desire to see
  local resistance to the dominant discourse