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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Mainara da Costa Benincá - 2014.pdf: 6144126 bytes, checksum: 29978601d73684091b77e6917a4c53d1 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / The peasant has a relation of intimacy with their environment, and sees it as their way of living, working and having fun, a place of symbiotic changes and use of inherited knowledge. In their productive activities conceives the nature in order to maintain the respect for it and establish the balance, as long as they can preserve the way they live. But, throughout the history of the country, peasantry has been dispossessed from its lands. With the Brazilian Agrarian Reform politics, a little part of this peasantry (re)creates their ways of life and work in the rural settlements. In this paper we analyze the perception of nature and peasants at Santa Rita settlement (municipality of Jataí – GO) and Três Pontes (municipality of Perolândia – GO), from their productive organization. For that we sought to understand the process of peasantry territoralization and (re)creation through the Agrarian Reform politics, in both settlements, to identify the uses of nature for productive activities and analyze, through mental maps, the perception the peasant himself has of the nature and the use made of it. Among the methodological procedures, we used the bibliographical research, in order to obtain the theoretical basis, qualitative and quantitative data collection, through participative observation IN semi structured interviews with thirty percent of the families from each settlement, and the analysis of the mental maps produced by the peasants. It was noticed that the settlements differed one from the other, mainly when it referred to food autonomy and sovereignty. Santa Rita settlement is in a more favorable situation; there the peasants maintain a diversity of income and use of their land more sustainably. At Três Pontes, even though the settled peasants showing higher income, they constrain to the production of soy and corn beans, which compromises its food autonomy and sovereignty. It makes necessary a peasant recreation based on control and autonomy of its territory, based on the adoption of public politics that strengthen this working class, in the sense of giving economic, social and environmental conditions for their maintenance in the land. / O camponês possui uma íntima relação com o meio em que vive, o vê como um meio de vida, de trabalho e de lazer, um local de troca simbiótica e de uso dos saberes herdados. Por meio das atividades produtivas, concebem a natureza de modo a estabelecer respeito e equilíbrio, camponeses esses, que por muitos anos foram expropriados de suas terras e que através da política de Reforma Agrária brasileira, (re) criam seus modos de vida e de trabalho em assentamentos rurais. Discussão essa que deu origem ao presente trabalho, que pretende analisar a percepção da natureza pelos camponeses dos Assentamentos Santa Rita (município de Jataí-GO) e Três Pontes (município de Perolândia-GO), a partir da organização produtiva de ambos. Para tal buscou-se compreender o processo de territorialização e (re) criação camponesa por meio da política de Reforma Agrária, em ambos os assentamentos, identificar os usos da natureza promovidos pelas atividades produtivas e, analisar por meio de mapas mentais, a percepção e uso da natureza por parte das famílias camponesas. Dessa maneira, fizeram-se necessários alguns procedimentos metodológicos, como a pesquisa bibliográfica, a fim de dar o embasamento teórico, a coleta de dados qualitativos e quantitativos, por meio de observações participantes e entrevistas semiestruturadas com trinta por cento das famílias de cada assentamento supracitado, bem como a confecção de mapas mentais, junto aos camponeses. Verificou-se que as realidades entre os assentamentos se diferem no sentido de autonomia e soberania alimentar, tendo em vista que o Assentamento Santa Rita se encontra em situação mais favorável, sendo que mantém uma diversidade de produção e usam de forma mais sustentável sua terra. O Assentamento Três Pontes, mesmo apresentando uma maior renda, esta vinculado à apenas a produção de soja e milho, comprometendo dessa forma a autonomia e a soberania alimentar camponesa.

Up to now, politics and societies from all over the world have sought an economy that is built on the idea of continual growth to establish a wealthy future and achieve societal prosperity. At the same time, people have neglected to consider that the resulting environmental pollution is the largest cause of disease and death in the world today. Therefore, it appears sensible to ensure that people’s well-being and nature’s well-being is uncoupled from profit-orientated aims. To break the circle of continual growth and the decreasing well-being of humans and nature, individual sustainability traits that are able to foster a transition to sustainable development need to be explicitly identified. Today’s young people will presumably face an even more severe level of consequences resulting from continual growth, which will reach far into the future, thereby affecting the living environment of future generations even more drastically. Therefore, this dissertation aims to answer the question of how young people possess and profit from their sustainability traits in terms of well-being. This work approaches this question by empirically investigating different interrelations between environmental values, the perception of environments (including the perception of naturalness and the perception of aesthetics), environmental concern and well-being in the context of young people. The empirical section is divided into three parts that investigate the different relationships step by step. These three parts are based on three different quantitative questionnaire surveys of young people in Germany. In the first survey (N = 229; Mage = 13.27 years, SD = 2.37 years), the relation between secondary school students’ human-nature relationship as a sustainability trait and their well-being was investigated. Analyses showed that the sustainability trait of human-nature relationships was significantly related to young people’s age-dependent well-being through nature perception in terms of naturalness and aesthetics as well as through individual nature connection. Young people were shown to profit from nature as resource for their own well-being. A positive human-nature relationship could be described as an important requirement for people to achieve sustainable development. In a second inquiry, university students (N = 237; Mage = 22.12 years, SD = 3.09 years) with a focus on the interrelations of sustainability traits that showed relations to people’s well-being in past research were surveyed. The results describe the interrelations between the specified sustainability traits of environmental values, a newly developed scale that theoretically and empirically validated affective nature connection, cognitive nature connection, and environmental concern. The findings indicate that the chosen sustainability traits mutually contribute to each other’s impact and do not preclude each other. Future research based on the results of the two described studies will likely show that sustainability traits are desirable characteristics and useful attributes that are available all over the world, no matter what a person’s age. As a final step, secondary school students’ environmental concern and well-being were quantitatively surveyed (N = 2173; Mage = 14.56 years, SD = 1.45 years) to analyze how environmental concern as a sustainability trait predicts young people’s well-being. The children’s and adolescents’ sustainability trait of environmental concern was able to predict young people’s well-being, with a clear dependence on age. The obtained outcomes supporting the aim to possess nature as a resource of well-being need to be considered in terms of young people’s age. Youth seem to experience sensitive periods of time in which the youth’s sustainability traits evidently act differently than in other stages of life. Hence it is important to point out that especially young people need age-appropriate treatment in terms of education for sustainable development to successfully foster young people’s sustainability traits. The main goal of this dissertation was to explore and identify in-depth insights into young people’s sustainability traits and their interrelations as well as the connections to young people’s well-being. As such interrelations between sustainability traits and well-being meet the aims of sustainable development as well as political and societal aims for a healthy future life environment for everyone which is expected of continual (economic) growth up to the present time, age-dependent education for sustainable development could address the need for young people to become progressive decision makers who create future-proof solutions for themselves and others, considering the constitution of a worthy life for present and future generations.