The Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) promotes from june 13 to 16, 2012, the First International Conference on Collaborative Environmental Management – CIGAC, located and looking towards the Semiarid Northeast Brazil within the theme: “Science and Social Innovation.”
We plan an audience of about 400 participants including researchers, students,entrepreneurs, government representatives and leaders of social movements,associations and local communities.
The general objective of this first CIGAC is to provide an space for reflection on science in environmental management in collaboration with the micronarratives of the practice around technology and social innovation. And our main specific objectives are:
* Identify the trends and practices of scientific knowledge and social innovationrelated to environmental management;
* Establish an inter-institutional coordination for joint action between the sciences, technologies (social innovation) and local communities in environmental management in the region;
The First CIGAC counts upon the collaboration of researchers from different parts of Brasil and the partnership of MetaReciclagem Network.
