Analysis of the environmental profile of students from Catingueira, Paraíba, using two environmental measure scales

• GUILHERME, Laianne Souza ^[1] ; SANTOS, Pedro Silva ^[1] ; FREITAS, Maria Raquel Bizerra ^[1] ; OLIVEIRA, Habyhabanne Maia ^[1] ; SILVA, Edevaldo ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

     Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Revista da Universidade Vale do Rio Verde, ISSN-e 2236-5362, ISSN 1517-0276, Vol. 14, Nº. 2, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: EM CONSTRUÇÃO), págs. 150-159
• Idioma: portugués
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  • 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.