Indicadores de sustentabilidade ambiental: uma análise do cálculo da Pegada Ecológica dos alunos e professores do curso de Ecologia da UFPB Campus IV Rio Tinto-PB

Abstract

The action of man on the environment has a status complete change of environmental systems resulting in social and economic problems with various effects on the quality of life of the population. Against this picture emerged indicators environmental with the goal check the degree of environmental degradation left by a given population. The indicator comes from the Latin (Indicare) means show, point, discover and advertising. The various environmental indicators, the Ecological Footprint, stands out for treating untreated be an indicator has the ability check with a given population through their lifestyle contributes to the degradation of natural resources. Thus, is against this background that this work is presented with the main objective to calculate the Ecological Footprint Ecology course the students and teachers Campus IV UFPB. To conduct the survey, was initially made a literature review about the theme in question followed by a technical visit to the questionnaire. To calculate the Ecological Footprint was used a specific questionnaire structured themes many about the life of each interviewee style. The questionnaire was administered to a group of Ecology Course P3 (10 students) and together with the teachers of the course (10 teachers). Then the data were tabulated and analyzed in the light of the bibliographic reference presented in the work. The research shows that the higher the level of consumption and income greater interviewed will be the size of your Footprint Ecological and environmental impact on natural resources. Thus, the faculty of the course presented a Footprint greater than that of students interviewed. In addition, the research shows that the Ecological Footprint of teachers and students interviewed, is above the average of the Brazilian Ecological Footprint. This indicates that the development paradigm and the relentless pursuit of consumption generates a series of waste and environmental impacts on the various environmental systems.