Environmental

their environmental practices as inadequate. • Have low expectation about companies and prefer those ones that have made improvements around its sustainable practices. • Tend to exaggerate their green behaviour and consume a lot of green products. • Want environmental protection to be easy without major sacrifices. • Tend to distrust companies' environmental claims, unless they have been independently verified. • Tend not to trust them to evaluate scientific information about…

strike new attitudes related to environmental problems. These new attitudes include a continuous changing process on the manner to manage their business in the organizations. Thus, some industrial companies are developing new ways to deal with the environmental problems through auto-regulation mechanisms or proactive environmental management. Key words: Auto-regulation, proactive company, business strategy and environment, environmental technologies, environmental management tools.

traditional theories of international relations? The environmental challenges throughout the world are numerous and complex. Most governments and institutions now clearly realize that environmental issues are now directly related with other social/ cultural and socioeconomic issues. Promoting sustainable growth and assuring the protection of biodiversity on the planet is the only path forward for human survival. Decades of environmental mismanagement have created a severe…

estuda ou pretende estudar. Quanto aos temas abordados pela psicologia ambiental, uma leitura de recentes revisões na área (Craik, 1973; Holahan, 1986; Russell & Ward, 1982; Saegert & Winkel, 1990; Stokols, 1978) ou o índice do Handbook of Environmental Psychology (Stokols & Altman, 1987), mostram sua grande diversidade: desde a percepção e cognição do ambiente; efeito do ambiente no comportamento; ambientes diferenciados para crianças, jovens, adultos, trabalhadores; ambientes…

requer que o estudante reproduza tais conhecimentos. As estratégias da apresentação formal, demonstrações ou prescrição de tarefas são favorecidas. Por exemplo, a recente estratégia Hi-Q Bowl proposta por Gwyn & McCabe (1994), no Journal of Environmental Education: os estudantes são encorajados a demonstrar a capacidade intelectual memorizando fatos, figuras e datas relativas às questões ambientais, para depois tentarem responder uma bateria de perguntas o mais rápido possível. O…

da chamada crise ambiental. Key-words: Environmental Psychology; personenvironment relationships; environmental problems; multidisciplinarity Palavras-chave: Psicologia Ambiental; relações pessoaambiente; problemas ambientais; multidisciplinaridade Abstract: Environmental Psychology, the search for a better environment. Psychology should engage in the analysis of environmental problems, which are, in fact, human-environmental problems, aiming at their solution. To help

sustainability reporting is an initiative that attempts to create a paradigm of triple bottom line reporting that encompasses the economic, environmental, and social performance of business. Measurement and reporting of environmental and social aspects are in their infancy compared to financial/economic reporting. The objective of the GRI’s framework is to elevate environmental and social reporting to the level of financial reporting by developing reporting principles and information…

aspectos como qualidade de vida e expectative de vida. No entanto este crescimento rapido pode trazer drasticas consequencia para o resto do mundo. China e a maior exportadora mundial de goods manufaturados e junto com este crescimento comes some environmental concerns. Em meu essay eu vou discutir both the positive and the negative effects para o resto do mundo. China`s economy emergence pode se definer como uma das caracteristicas da globalizacao moderna. Durante duas decadas, a china…

Currently, Environmental Education has assumed a growing importance in society. Through the inclusion of sustainable development and educational practices for the conservation of the environment we seek to better quality of life for society, where it should be kept in balance with the ecosystem. This work is justified conceptually by considering the interaction between two fundamental aspects for the sustainability and balance of the ecosystem, together with the Environmental Education…

Ministros analisem e participem da homologação de uma AAE quando esta for submetida a um ministro, de forma individual (CEAA, 2004). Os agentes envolvidos no processo de implementação da AAE no Canadá são: Agência Ambiental Canadense (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency - CEAA) – Ministério do Meio Ambiente – trata-se de uma comissão com poderes independentes, responsável pela elaboração das diretrizes e pelo monitoramento da implantação do instrumento de AAE (CEAA, 2004) e os…