Percepção da Conscientização Ambiental Cidadã diante das Ações Antrópicas à partir da Compreensão da Legislação Brasileira

Abstract

In recent decades, records from a large part of the world's scientific community have stated that the rates of pollution and degradation of ecosystems grow proportionally to population growth, with human actions being the only cause of environmental impacts. However, nowadays, faced with a diverse and conflicting scenario, characteristic of anthropic actions in the face of basic subsistence needs, social and cultural inequalities, access to information and economic development, it is necessary to constantly critically assess norms and their applicability . In this context, the objective is to seek to assess the perception of environmental citizenship, after 24 years of validity of federal law 9.605/98 - the law of environmental crimes, which established normative criteria and procedures for the exploitation of environmental resources and services in Brazil, as well as the typification and criminal liability, if applicable, of actions both by the legal entity and also attributing individual and collective duties to ordinary citizens if proven negative impacts with environmental damage, as well as the inclusion of environmental education in the Brazilian Federal Constitution. Based on this assumption that the citizen/voter is the driver and holder of decision-making power, in individual everyday acts and facts, including participatory action of university autonomy, being this one who delegates by vote his legislative representatives and the university council. By understanding the measurement of citizenship and environmental education, the knowledge and effectiveness of environmental legal protection, in a population of academics in postgraduate courses at the Federal University of Pelotas, the objective is to seek a concrete diagnosis by adding methodologically updated technical knowledge. In order to obtain the data and achieve the greatest possible reach, digital questionnaires were prepared and sent via e-mail to the environments of this social group surveyed. The results of this investigation and data records can contribute significantly to the construction of academic and scientific knowledge about citizen environmental awareness among UFPel graduate students. The study points to a significant gap, in lack of transversality in Environmental Education, aggravated in the postgraduate environment, weakened citizen participation, greater lack of knowledge of the environmental legal framework in view of the full awareness of the need for such appropriation. It envisages new questions and reproducibility for the open and transparent construction of new concepts of sustainability and citizenship.