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Sustainability: A Study of the Level of Ecological Behavior of Postgraduate Students in Brazil
Author(s) -
Almeida Damiana Machado,
Gama Madruga Lucia Rejane,
Lopes Luis Felipe Dias,
Avila Lucas Veiga,
Ibdaiwi Thiago Kader Rajeh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.21450
Subject(s) - sustainability , institution , virtue , natural resource , population , resource (disambiguation) , function (biology) , environmental education , psychology , higher education , sociology , ecology , public relations , political science , environmental ethics , pedagogy , social science , law , computer network , philosophy , demography , evolutionary biology , computer science , biology
The decline in the supply of natural resources is a cause for concern, especially given continued worldwide population growth. New habits and attitudes toward resource use are slowly being introduced into the everyday lives of persons residing in a number of countries. The term “ecological behavior” refers to acting in favor of the environment, whether these actions are voluntarily or not, or learned or not (Pato & Tamayo, [Malhotra, N. F. N., 2006]). The general objective of this study is to identify the environmental behavior—one of several terms used interchangeably with ecological behavior—of graduate students from a Brazilian federal institution of higher education. We chose this particular group because many of them already act, or will act, as professors. Thus, by virtue of their positions, they will function as opinion leaders who will influence the education of future professionals, establishing a chain through which shared values can gradually change the environmental behavior of society.