Environmental education as tool for the sustainability in a forest fragment in Passo Fundo, Rs, Brazil

The change in living standards has been done that the contact with nature becomes extremely important to the people life quality and its harmonious relationship with the environment. The preservation of areas like forest fragments contribute to maintaining biological diversity, promote sustainable use of natural resources and foster the...

The role of environmental education in sustainable consumption and lifestyle: Survey results in Hungarian higher education and high schools

Environmental education is expected to have significant influence on environmental awareness, everyday lifestyle and consumer behavior of the participants. Our paper aims to explore how content, intensity and ways of environmental education reflect in the knowledge, values, attitudes and actual behavior of university students and high school...

Inter-collge cooperation as a tool for a campus environmentalization: Strengthening the cooperation project between Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

For several decades, environmental variables have been introduced to universities, either in curriculum activities or campus management. Following such trend, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in Brazil, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), in Spain, created, throughout the 1990s, organizational structures able to coordinate environmental...