Terminology applied to scientific literature on environmental management: guidelines for a micro-thesaurus building

ABSTRACT

The article provides an overview about the debate on environmental management in the Amazon in the light of the terminology used in the scientific production of the Postgraduate Programs (PPGs) authorized by the Federal agency called CAPES. It takes as reference the Interdisciplinary and Environmental Science thematic areas. Particularly, the article shows an example of the key terms and concepts used in the construction of the regional knowledge from the Postgraduate researches in Amazon. The theoretical study framework is grounded in the literature on environmental management, terminology, indexing language and thesaurus. Methodologically, the work follows a qualitative method using paper source. The data were collected by the analysis of 332 master dissertations and 43 PhD theses. It was used a terminological form to deal with the documents and then to collect, extract and to standard the environmental terms (concepts) used in the scientific production of the PPGs. The assessed terminology allows to organize and systematize the terms and concepts used, thus building a micro-thesaurus. The construction of this micro-thesaurus with its terminological relationships and environmental management specificities contributes to recover environmental information and also for its proper use in the knowledge management.

Keywords:
Environmental terminology; Documentary language; thesaurus; Environmental management