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Tem-se assistido nos últimos anos a um crescente debate em torno do atual modelo económico e na forma como este tem impacto sobre o ambiente e a capacidade de sobrevivência das gerações vindouras. Este debate fez surgir o conceito de sustentabilidade, que é hoje uma preocupação da sociedade global. Também as Instituições de Ensino Superior, sendo fontes de conhecimento e saber, começaram a integrar este conceito na sua investigação, nos campus e no curriculum. Dada a pertinência do tema pretende-se com esta investigação avaliar se o conhecimento ambiental conduz a atitudes ambientalmente amigáveis e a comportamentos mais responsáveis em relação ao meio ambiente, no contexto das Instituições de Ensino Superior.
Inúmeras investigações têm surgido com vista a estudar e caracterizar o perfil do consumidor amigo do ambiente, tendo alguns autores utilizado as relações entre conhecimento, atitudes e comportamento para o fazer. Esta pesquisa, apoiando-se na Teoria da Ação Racional, procura verificar a existência de relação entre Conhecimento e Atitudes e entre Conhecimento e Comportamento ambiental de um grupo de estudantes. – Para a recolha dos dados foi utilizado um questionário que visava avaliar o conhecimento ambiental geral dos respondentes, assim como as atitudes e comportamentos face à energia (poupança, consumo, interesse, etc.).
Os resultados apontaram para a inexistência de relação entre conhecimento e atitudes e entre conhecimento e comportamentos; a relação entre atitudes e comportamentos revelou-se fraca. Verificou-se ainda que os homens, os alunos dos escalões etários mais elevados e das áreas de Engenharias e Ciências Sociais e Humanas são os que têm um maior nível de conhecimento ambiental. No que toca a atitudes e comportamentos são as mulheres que pareceram ter mais consciência acerca destas questões. No que toca às práticas levadas a cabo pela sua instituição de ensino, os alunos mostram desconhecimento, aparentando inclusive algum desinteresse.
There has been in recent years a growing debate around the current economic model and how this impacts the environment and maintenance of future generations. This debate has given rise to the concept of sustainability, which is today’s global society concern. The higher education institutions, as sources of knowledge and learning, also began to integrate this concept in their research, campus activities and curriculum. Given the relevance of the theme, the goal of this investigation is to assess if the knowledge leads to environmentally friendly attitudes and to a more responsible behaviors towards the environment. Numerous investigations have arisen in order to study and characterize the environmentally friendly consumer profile, and some authors used the relationship between knowledge, attitudes and behavior to do so. This research, supported on the Theory of Reasoned Action, seeks to verify the existence of relationship between Knowledge and attitudes and between knowledge and environmental behavior of a group of students. For data collection it was used a questionnaire aimed at assessing the overall environmental knowledge of the respondents, as well as the attitudes and behaviors in regarding energy issues (savings, consumption, interest, etc.). The results pointed to the lack of relationship between knowledge and attitudes, and between knowledge and behavior; the relationship between attitudes and behavior has proved to be weak. It was also found that men, students of the higher age groups and areas of Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities are those with a higher level of environmental knowledge. When it comes to attitudes and behaviors the women are who seem to have more awareness on the issues. As regarding the practices undertaken by their educational institution, students show ignorance, and even some disinterest.
There has been in recent years a growing debate around the current economic model and how this impacts the environment and maintenance of future generations. This debate has given rise to the concept of sustainability, which is today’s global society concern. The higher education institutions, as sources of knowledge and learning, also began to integrate this concept in their research, campus activities and curriculum. Given the relevance of the theme, the goal of this investigation is to assess if the knowledge leads to environmentally friendly attitudes and to a more responsible behaviors towards the environment. Numerous investigations have arisen in order to study and characterize the environmentally friendly consumer profile, and some authors used the relationship between knowledge, attitudes and behavior to do so. This research, supported on the Theory of Reasoned Action, seeks to verify the existence of relationship between Knowledge and attitudes and between knowledge and environmental behavior of a group of students. For data collection it was used a questionnaire aimed at assessing the overall environmental knowledge of the respondents, as well as the attitudes and behaviors in regarding energy issues (savings, consumption, interest, etc.). The results pointed to the lack of relationship between knowledge and attitudes, and between knowledge and behavior; the relationship between attitudes and behavior has proved to be weak. It was also found that men, students of the higher age groups and areas of Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities are those with a higher level of environmental knowledge. When it comes to attitudes and behaviors the women are who seem to have more awareness on the issues. As regarding the practices undertaken by their educational institution, students show ignorance, and even some disinterest.
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Atitudes Comportamentos Pró-Ambientais Conhecimento Ambiental Energia Sustentabilidade