Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AngelaMMC .pdf: 379445 bytes, checksum: 4c7938fc817dc5608380eaaf9b598857 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This study deals with environmental issues on agriculture. In this context, the aim of this study is investigate factors able to influence the environmental conscientization of students of a agricultural technicals school about the aspects and environmental impacts related to the agricultural productive process. Besides, the used methodology on this work was to the application of a questionnaire based in Likert-kind scale with closed questions, they are constituted of variables which consisted of groups denominated perception, attitude, communitarian sense, commitment, sel-consciousness, knowledge and student profile. Like data analysis way was used descriptive analysis and chi-square to check the association significance between the perception variable with the variable ones of cited groups. The results obtained show that the environmental knowledge variable was one of the that showed high significance when it associated to the variables of perception group. The students with environmental knowledge showed high consideration that the production activities on agriculture cause large adverse impacts on environment. After the identification of some factors of environmental conscientization are shown recommendations which school must prepare techniques in aware high school of agricultural sciences with the environmental problems which be able to apply sustainable technologies on agriculture instead of traditional ones through the benefit of environment / O presente estudo trata das quest?es ambientais na agricultura. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste estudo ? investigar fatores capazes de influenciar a conscientiza??o ambiental de estudantes de uma escola agrot?cnica sobre os aspectos e impactos ambientais relacionados com o processo produtivo agr?cola. Para tanto, a metodologia empregada neste trabalho foi ? aplica??o de um question?rio com escalas do tipo likert com quest?es fechadas, constituindo de vari?veis que compuseram os grupos denominados percep??o, atitude, senso comunit?rio, comprometimento, constrangimento, conhecimento e perfil dos alunos. Como forma de an?lise dos dados, foi utilizada an?lise descritiva e chi-quadrado, para verificar a signific?ncia das associa??es entre as vari?veis de percep??o com as vari?veis dos grupos citados. Os resultados obtidos mostram que a vari?vel conhecimento ambiental foi uma das que apresentou grande signific?ncia quando associada com as vari?veis do grupo percep??o. Os alunos com conhecimento ambiental apresentam maior considera??o de que as atividades de produ??o na agricultura causam grandes impactos adversos no ambiente. Ap?s a identifica??o de alguns fatores de conscientiza??o ambiental, s?o apresentadas recomenda??es, onde a escola deve preparar t?cnicos agr?colas conscientes com os problemas ambientais, os quais poder?o aplicar tecnologias sustent?veis na agricultura, em substitui??o ?quelas tradicionais, em benef?cio do meio ambiente

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosLC.pdf: 615910 bytes, checksum: 95ed45df182b348344fc8b5fcba2931a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-12 / This research has aimed at studying the perception of University Hospital Onofre Lopes (HUOL) s workers on the environmental management plan of RSSS. They have been interviewed 250 workers: doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, and cleaners. It was used an exploratory and descriptive research of the type Survey, which aims at obtaining of data or information on characteristics, actions or opinions of any group of people. The questions of the questionnaire were of the kind objective", formulated in a model "scale", analyzed in according to the positioning of the interviewee. The wastes of health service have high potential for environmental impact in the activities from HUOL. Actions or environmental protective policy can improve the image of HUOL. They have been detected divergences on the rigor in application of law of ANVISA. The HUOL s workers unaware of the law of ANVISA and they have little or no knowledge about the practices of environmental control, public health and, they do not know the Environmental Management System ISO 14001. They have divergent views on the degree of importance of ISO 14001. There is not a Waste Management Plan for Health Service and / or is not disclosed for most of HUOL workers. It has not carried out audits or defined the goals and objectives. Besides, it has not been identified legal requirements, and there has not been communication about the service is performed or has been made a critical analysis and no control of documents the environmental management plan. The HUOL have not had a committee of environmental management. The direction of HUOL has not been organized courses, training and recycling of waste on environmental control of the health service. On a scale from 01 to 05, the level of aware level concerning to the waste management from health services of the workers, so is at the threshold between 01 and 02. For the reversal of this situation, the first and urgent step is the creation and institutionalization the environmental management committee of the University Hospital Onofre Lopes / Objetivou-se estudar a percep??o dos servidores do Hospital Universit?rio Onofre Lopes sobre o plano de gest?o ambiental dos RSSS. Foram entrevistados 250 servidores: m?dicos, enfermeiras, auxiliares de enfermagem e de limpeza. A pesquisa foi explorat?ria e descritiva do tipo Survey, que visa ? obten??o de dados ou informa??es sobre as caracter?sticas, a??es ou opini?es de determinado grupo de pessoas. As perguntas do question?rio foram do tipo objetiva , formuladas em um modelo escala , analisadas de acordo com o posicionamento do entrevistado. Os res?duos de servi?o de sa?de possuem elevado potencial de impacto ambiental nas atividades do HUOL. A??es ou pol?tica de prote??o ambiental podem melhorar a imagem do HUOL. Foram detectadas diverg?ncias sobre o rigor na aplica??o da legisla??o da ANVISA. Os servidores do HUOL desconhecem a legisla??o da ANVISA e possuem pouco ou nenhum conhecimento sobre as pr?ticas de controle ambiental de sa?de p?blica e ainda, desconhece o Sistema de Gest?o Ambiental ISO 14001. Possuem opini?es divergentes sobre o grau de import?ncia da ISO 14001. N?o existe um Plano de Gest?o de Res?duos de Servi?o de Sa?de e/ou n?o ? divulgado para a maioria dos servidores do HUOL. N?o acontecem auditorias, n?o s?o definidas as metas e objetivos, n?o s?o identificados os requisitos legais, e n?o existe comunica??o sobre como o servi?o ? executado, n?o ? efetuada uma an?lise cr?tica e n?o h? controle de documentos do plano de gest?o ambiental. O HUOL n?o possui uma comiss?o de gest?o ambiental. A dire??o do HUOL n?o organiza cursos de capacita??o, treinamento e reciclagem sobre controle ambiental de res?duos de servi?o de sa?de. Em uma escala de 01 a 05, o n?vel de conscientiza??o com rela??o ao gerenciamento de res?duos de servi?os de sa?de dos servidores, encontra-se no patamar entre 01 e 02. Para a revers?o deste quadro, o primeiro e urgente passo, ? a cria??o e institucionaliza??o da comiss?o de gest?o ambiental do Hospital Universit?rio Onofre Lopes

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarcosARD.pdf: 1055485 bytes, checksum: 32c13ea344928c839dc661fdfde1de89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / The present work sets out environmental issues in educational field. The aim of this research was to investigate the factors capable to influence the environmental behavior of the teachers in High school of the public school in Floriano, state of Piaui. For this, the methodology utilized an explanatory and descriptive search like a survey; questionnaires were applied with open and close questions establishing shifts that made up the following aspects; knowledge, behavior, responsibility, participation and trait of the teachers. The statistic techniques to analyze the data were descriptive analysis and analysis of multiple regression. The results reveal that teachers care about the real surrounding problems and believe that the school must develop ambient activities to stir the consciousness, it is important to the environmental improvement of the city. However, the results point out that are developed little activities related to theme concerned, besides the level of ambient consciousness given to the students are median. It was observed that teachers have little knowledge about theme like Agenda 21 and ISO14000. After identifying some factors of environmental knowledge, it was showed recommendations. The Agenda 21 recognizes in the educational field a mean of popular consciousness; the school should develop an education according to national policy of the environmental education / O presente estudo trata das quest?es ambientais no setor de educa??o. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar os fatores capazes de influenciar o comportamento ambiental de professores do Ensino M?dio das escolas p?blicas do munic?pio de Floriano, estado do Piau?. Para tanto, foi utilizada na metodologia uma pesquisa explorat?ria e descritiva do tipo Survey , empregando-se question?rio com perguntas fechadas e abertas, constitu?do de vari?veis que compuseram os grupos denominados, percep??o, atitude, senso comunit?rio, comprometimento, conhecimento, participa??o e perfil dos professores. As t?cnicas estat?sticas utilizada na an?lise dos dados foram ? descritiva e a de regress?o m?ltipla. Os resultados obtidos revelam que os professores t?m a preocupa??o com os problemas ambientais atuais e acreditam ser importante as escolas desenvolverem atividades ambientais como fator de conscientiza??o e relevante para a melhoria ambiental da cidade. Entretanto, os resultados mostram que s?o desenvolvidas poucas atividades ambientais nas escolas e que o grau de conhecimento ambiental oferecido aos alunos ? regular. Observou-se tamb?m pouco conhecimento por parte dos professores sobre temas como Agenda 21 e ISO 14000. Ap?s a identifica??o de alguns fatores de conscientiza??o ambiental, s?o apresentadas recomenda??es para as escolas desenvolverem uma educa??o de acordo com a pol?tica Nacional de Educa??o Ambiental, ressaltando que a Agenda 21 reconhece na educa??o ambiental um instrumento de conscientiza??o popular

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanyGKCS.pdf: 1632119 bytes, checksum: 11f4a6392f8168ee4ed4ac5f7a5e29ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This objective of this work was to investigate the enviromental perception of technician of clinical laboratories, in the city of the Natal/RN, focusing the generated environmental aspects and impacts in the activities, the strategical importance of the environmental management for the activity, as well as the knowledge about environmental norms and resolutions applied to the sector. A type survey exploratory and descriptive was carried through, using a questionnaire applied in 82 clinical laboratory, getting a return tax of 53,65%, or either, 44 laboratories. The results of the descriptive analyses point with respect to environmental conscience of the interviewed, therefore the majority (75%) described the activities of clinical analyses as great imapact on the environment. Although the interviewed present certain knowledge on the advantages of practical of envivonmental protection and the risks that the activities of clinical analyses offer, some important practical of environmental protection arer not develped by the majority of the iterviewed. The carried through statistical analyses had allowed to investigate the level of environmental knowledge of the professionals of the sector, being consisted themselves that they present little knowledge on practical ISO 14001 and of environmental protection in the health public sector. It can be conclude that, a program of environmental qualification for the sector becomes necessary, in order to improve the knowledge of the professionals of the area, and that the majority of the professionals would have a good recptivity therefore recognize the benefits of the practicadl of environmental protection for the competitiveness of the clinical analyses laboratories / O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar a percep??o ambiental dos t?cnicos de laborat?rios de an?lises cl?nicas, na cidade do Natal/RN, enfocando os aspectos e impactos ambientais gerados nas atividades, a import?ncia estrat?gica da gest?o ambiental para a atividade, assim como o conhecimento de normas e resolu??es ambientais aplicados ao setor. Foi realizada uma pesquisa tipo survey, explorat?ria e descritiva utilizando-se um question?rio como principal fonte de coleta, aplicado em 82 laborat?rio de an?lises cl?nicas obtendo-se uma taxa de retorno de 53,65%, ou seja, 44 laborat?rios. Os resultados da an?lises descritiva apontam para consci?ncia ambiental dos entrevistados, pois a maioria (75%) descreveu as atividades de an?lises cl?nicas como de grande impacto sobre o meio ambiente. Embora os entrevistados apresentem certo conhecimento sobre as vantagens das pr?ticas de prote??o ambiental e os riscos que as atividades de an?lises c1?nicas oferecem, algumas importantes pr?ticas de prote??o ambiental n?o s?o desenvolvidas pela maioria dos entrevistados. As an?lises estat?sticas realizadas permitiram, avaliar o n?vel de conhecimento ambiental dos profissionais do setor, constando-se que apresentam pouco conhecimento sobre ISO 14001 e pr?ticas de prote??o ambiental no setor de sa?de p?blica. Pode-se concluir que, um programa de capacita??o ambiental para o setor faz-se necess?rio, a fim de melhorar o conhecimento dos profissionais da ?rea, e que teria uma boa receptividade, pois a maioria dos profissionais reconhece os benef?cios das pr?ticas de prote??o ambiental para a competitividade dos laborat?rios de an?lises cl?nicas

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-12T11:52:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseIP_TESE.pdf: 3470658 bytes, checksum: d6793946d3aaf1a838f9bd6bae5e02f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-16 / The search for sustainable solutions through an appropriate environmental administration of the available natural resources, that comes from encounter to the aspirations of preservation of the environment and of the human being, in way to diagnose and to solve the environmental and social problems with the smallest possible impact to the nature and the man, it is the great challenge, so much for that generation, as for the future generations. The study of the environmental problems of the water and the participation and the social actors' environmental understanding as a whole, interferes in the field of the thematic environmental international, contemplating the strategic need of an appropriate administration of that very natural one, through a program returned to the diagnosis of the problems and in the search of compatible maintainable solutions, in a social and environmental politics of planning and environmental education, centered above all in the citizen's voice , user of that system. The present thesis she seeks to study the problem of the maintainable administration of the water, focusing the participation and the citizen's environmental understanding in the use of that very natural one for urban residential activities, in what concerns the approach and analyses of variables that treat of the measurement of general knowledge and you adapt, sense of community of the access to the means of information and of the attitudes and environmental behaviors, besides the variables of partner-demographic characterization or personal identification of the interviewed ones of an exploratory research of the type " survey ", accomplished through a stratified aleatory sampling, being the strata each one of the 4 (four) Political-Administrative Areas of the Natal city, having happened the collection of the data in the period of february to april/2002. The methodology used in this work it constitutes in the application of questionnaires with scales of the type Likert to measure the echo-varied of the study, besides a partner-demographic scale for the characterization of the studied sample. For the analysis of the results, it was made an exploratory descriptive study initially, followed by the use of techniques statistical multivariate s, such as, factorial analysis through the application of main components, besides the accomplishment of studies of multiple lineal regression. To complement this study, the accomplishment of Tests of Independence was proceeded through the Qui-square of Pearson, in way to verify the dependence of the associations between the partner-demographic variables and the principal selected variables and presents in the resulting factors of the factorial analysis. The results appear for a low level of environmental knowledge, of access to the information and community's sense, besides the verification that the principal factors resultants send for the need of feeling emphasis in the programs and administration actions addressed for the environmental understanding, the behaviors and attitudes that approach the information and the environmental education, besides the reuse of the water / A busca por solu??es sustent?veis atrav?s de uma gest?o ambiental adequada dos recursos naturais dispon?veis, que venha de encontro ?s aspira??es de preserva??o do meio ambiente e do ser humano, de maneira a equacionar e solucionar os problemas ambientais e sociais com o menor impacto poss?vel ? natureza e ao homem ? o grande desafio, tanto para essa gera??o, como para as futuras gera??es. O estudo das problem?ticas ambientais da ?gua e a participa??o e conscientiza??o ambiental dos atores sociais como um todo, se insere no campo da tem?tica ambiental internacional, contemplando a necessidade estrat?gica de uma gest?o apropriada desse bem natural, atrav?s de um programa voltado ao diagn?stico dos problemas e na procura de solu??es sustent?veis compat?veis, em uma pol?tica social e ambiental de planejamento e educa??o ambiental, centrada acima de tudo na voz do cidad?o , usu?rio desse sistema. A presente tese visa estudar a problem?tica da gest?o sustent?vel da ?gua, enfocando a participa??o e a conscientiza??o ambiental do cidad?o no uso desse bem natural para atividades residenciais urbanas, no que concerne a abordagem e an?lises de vari?veis que tratam da mensura??o de conhecimentos gerais e ambientais, do senso de comunidade, do acesso aos meios de informa??o e das atitudes e comportamentos ambientais, al?m das vari?veis de caracteriza??o s?cio-demogr?fica ou identifica??o pessoal dos entrevistados de uma pesquisa explorat?ria do tipo survey", realizada atrav?s de uma amostragem aleat?ria estratificada, sendo os estratos cada uma das 4 (quatro) Regi?es Pol?tico-Administrativas da cidade do Natal, tendo ocorrido a coleta dos dados no per?odo de fevereiro a abril/2002. A metodologia empregada neste trabalho constitui na aplica??o de question?rios com escalas do tipo Likert para medir as eco-vari?veis do estudo, al?m de uma escala s?cio-demogr?fica para a caracteriza??o da amostra estudada. Para a an?lise dos resultados, foi inicialmente feito um estudo descritivo explorat?rio, seguido da utiliza??o de t?cnicas estat?sticas multivariadas, tais como, an?lise fatorial por meio da aplica??o de componentes principais, al?m da realiza??o de estudos de regress?o linear m?ltipla. Para complementar este estudo, procedeu-se a realiza??o de Testes de Independ?ncia atrav?s do Qui-Quadrado de Pearson, de modo a verificar a depend?ncia das associa??es entre as vari?veis Sociodemogr?ficas e as principais vari?veis selecionadas e presentes nos fatores resultantes da an?lise fatorial. Os resultados apontam para um baixo n?vel de conhecimento ambiental, de acesso ? informa??o e senso de comunidade, al?m da constata??o de que os principais fatores resultantes remetem para a necessidade de se dar ?nfase nos programas e a??es de gest?o direcionada para a conscientiza??o ambiental, os comportamentos e atitudes que abordam as informa??es e a educa??o ambiental, al?m do reuso da ?gua

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EsmeraldoMS.pdf: 701694 bytes, checksum: 2eb58a7ede296ca49c8a7bf7218b2208 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-09-09 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present study inserts on the international environmental thematic, approaching the integrated management of solid waste and the participation of the social actors in the search of the sustainable development. The awareness in combining it still describes a Selective Collection Program SCP of solid waste, in partnership with the municipal public power, in the development of joint actions that result in better alternatives of waste management in the urban centers, providing better life quality for the population and conservation of the environment. The aim of this research is to study problematic of the management of solid waste under the point of view of the environmental awareness and the participation of the population in a city of Brazil. In this matter, the target of the work is focusing on the strategy of solid waste management, through the attitudes and the respondents behaviors to aid in the making decision of the public manager related to the implantation of a selective collection program in Natal/RN. The methodology used in this work constitutes in the application of a questionnaire with scales of the type Likert being constituted of variables that compose the aspects of attitudes and of behaviors, besides a social-demographic scale. For analysis statistics is used the Pearson s Chi-Square Method in order to verify the dependence of the associations between the social-demographic variables and the attitude and the behavior ones. The results appear for a larger participation in a SCP, since this provides a better quality of life of the population (28,3 %), followed for offering a financial advantage (27,3%). Other results indicate the existence of the variables that exercise influence on the environmental awareness of the population to its demographic aspects / O presente estudo insere-se na tem?tica ambiental internacional, abordando a gest?o integrada de res?duos s?lidos e a participa??o dos atores sociais na busca do desenvolvimento sustent?vel atrav?s de sua conscientiza??o ambiental. Descreve ainda a conscientiza??o em integrar-se a um Programa de Coleta Seletiva PCS de res?duos s?lidos em parceria com o poder p?blico municipal, no desenvolvimento de a??es conjuntas que resultem em melhores alternativas de gest?o para os res?duos nos centros urbanos, proporcionando melhor qualidade de vida para a popula??o e preserva??o do meio ambiente. O objetivo desta pesquisa ? estudar a problem?tica da gest?o de res?duos s?lidos sob o ponto de vista da conscientiza??o e participa??o ambiental da popula??o em uma cidade do Brasil. Desta forma, o escopo do trabalho versa sobre a estrat?gia de gest?o de res?duos s?lidos, atrav?s das atitudes e comportamentos dos entrevistados para auxiliar na tomada de decis?o do gestor p?blico quanto ? implanta??o de um programa de coleta seletiva em Natal/RN. A metodologia empregada neste trabalho constitui na aplica??o de um question?rio com escalas do tipo Likert constituindo-se de vari?veis que comp?em os aspectos atitudinais e comportamentais, al?m de uma escala s?cio-demogr?fica. Foi utilizado na an?lise estat?stica o m?todo Chi-Square de Pearson de modo a verificar a depend?ncia das associa??es entre as vari?veis s?cio-demogr?ficas e as vari?veis atitudinais e comportamentais. Os resultados apontam para uma maior participa??o em um PCS, desde que este proporcione uma melhor qualidade de vida da popula??o (28,3 %), seguido por oferecer uma vantagem financeira (27,3%). Outros resultados indicam a exist?ncia de vari?veis que exercem influ?ncia sobre a conscientiza??o ambiental da popula??o quanto ao seus aspectos demogr?ficos