ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE OF STUDENTS FROM CATINGUEIRA, PARAÍBA, USING TWO ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURE SCALESDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5892/ruvrd.v14i2.2757

• Autor(a) principal: GUILHERME, Laianne Souza; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Centro de Saúde e Tecnologia Rural Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências Biológicas
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: SANTOS, Pedro Silva; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Centro de Saúde e Tecnologia Rural Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências Biológicas, FREITAS, Maria Raquel Bizerra; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Centro de Saúde e Tecnologia Rural Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências Biológicas, OLIVEIRA, Habyhabanne Maia; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Centro de Saúde e Tecnologia Rural Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências Biológicas, SILVA, Edevaldo; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Centro de Saúde e Tecnologia Rural Unidade Acadêmica de Engenharia Florestal
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Universidade Vale do Rio Verde (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.unincor.br/index.php/revistaunincor/article/view/2757
• topic: Ciências Ambientais; Educação Ambiental; Environmental education; Ecological footprint; Sustainability; pratica socioambiental; consciência ecológica

Environmental education enables the acquisition of knowledge that provides awareness of human beings for a better relationship with the environment. The ecological footprint is a sustainable tool that measures the disorder that man causes on the planet in relation to his lifestyles and consumption. The objective of this study was to analyze the socio-environmental profile of the students in Catingueira, Paraíba, using two scales of environmental measures: the ecological footprint and the scale of concern with the environmental consequences. The two measure scales (Ecological footprint = 25 items and Environmental Concern = 12 items) were applied to 102 students. Students reached between 41 to 110 points for the ecological footprint, being ranked within a sustainable lifestyle. The scale of concern with the environmental consequences aims to classify individuals into three distinct concerns (egoistic, altruistic and biospheric) for their environmental concern. Students tended to have a egoistic concern, which is a concern with the environment around himself, being vehement actions in Environmental Education that provides students with thoughts and habits that consider the welfare and preservation of living beings.