Resumen de Analysis of the environmental profile of students from Catingueira, Paraíba, using two environmental measure scales
Laianne Souza Guilherme, Pedro Silva Santos, Maria Raquel Bizerra Freitas, Habyhabanne Maia Oliveira, Edevaldo Silva
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.
