2020-04-242020-04-232020-04-242013-03-18https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/prefix/1532This study sought to develop in the context of discussions about the environment and building a sense of environmental citizenship, calling like conductive strands the family in the formation of environmental awareness through environmental education for sustainable development. This text aims to discuss the family as the agent of development of ecological awareness reference, able to build values that guarantee the preservation of exhaustible natural resources across of the state of degradation. The entitlement to an ecologically balanced environment is a fundamental right as is prescribed in art .225 of the Constitution of Brazil , right for everyone that depends of the State and the community to be effective. The environmental issues led a formation of a new paradigm, whereby changes of thinking and attitude began to view the environment from the perspective of protection . Brought up, then settled into a new ethics pillars for an environmental education which seeks to implement a practice that fosters the harmonious coexistence of human beings with nature. In this way of learning, environmental education is an indispensable tool to build a sense of citizenship, social transformation and in making decisions regarding environmental policy. Sustainability is the hub of environmental issues and the environment, interdisciplinary object. As soon as you promote sustainable development, it will expand the sense of being a citizen. We used qualitative methodological strategy through the procedures of the review of scientific literature and law, as well as raising academic production strict sensu on two subjects: ” National citizenship and Environmental Sustainability” and “Citizenship and Family”. The results from the survey reveal that, in the 1988 Constitution, and against the growing importance of fundamental rights, which increasingly permeate all areas of the legal system, the notion of citizenship is intrinsically related to a new vision of law, ethics and education, calling for a new social consciousness. Family is the space, in the highest degree, for the teaching of acting carefully, that will transmit the full exercise of citizenship environmental, striving for intergenerational solidarity. It follows that we must reflect on environmental issues as a way to build a sustainable society for future generations, without leave to offer to the present breed the right to quality of life. Laws enacted and scientific works produced demonstrate that the fundamental right will not be achieved without being internalized the ethical values which can be built on property with family relationship. In this journey of awareness of the family emerges as the first place of formation of human beings, catalyst of virtues and values, including environmental.Acesso AbertoCidadania ambientalFamíliaSustentabilidadeDesenvolvimento sustentávelInterdisciplinaridadeEducação ambientalSolidariedade intergeracionalEnvironmental citizenshipFamilySustainabilitySustainable developmentInterdisciplinarityEnvironmental educationIntergenerational SolidarityDissertação - ArtigoDissertaçãoSociais e HumanidadesMultidisciplinar