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

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