Environmental behavior: A comparative study between Brazilian and Portuguese students

• Autor(a) principal: Côrtes, P. L.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Dias, A. G., Fernandes, M. Eduarda, Pamplona, J.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/44846
• topic: Environmental attitudes; Environmental behavior; Green consumption; Cross-cultural study; Comportamento ambiental; Atitudes ambientais; Consumo verde; Estudo transcultural; Actitudes ambientales; Comportamiento ambiental; Consumo verde; Estudio transcultural; Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Although undergraduate students have great access to environmental information, it does not mean that an environmental behavior is being developed. With the use of a scale applied to 1035 university students from Brazil and Portugal, it was examined how the environmental behavior of these students is structured. Using multivariate statistical techniques, it was verified that there is a similarity in the environmental behavior of both groups, with environmental beliefs being manifested by an opposition to the anthropocentric view. The environmental attitudes have the concerns related to the environment as their predecessor. These concerns influence the option to control economic growth, which is reinforced by the ecocentric point of view of the respondents and is manifested by the perspective of a decrease in production and in consumption as well as the promotion of welfare. Although there is a tendency, the option for green consumption is not fully accomplished.