Environmental diagnosis of a school community in São Vicente - SP Cristiane Ramon Sampaio, Fernanda Ribeiro Freitas, Walter Barrella

Abstract

The environmental perception of a well-developed school community forms responsible citizens towards the environment. Environmental education in schools must raise awareness among the entire community to change behavior. The practice of environmental education is worked in an interdisciplinary way, enhancing the teaching-learning process. The Eco-Schools program, implemented by the FEE- Foundation for Environmental Education since 1990, seeks the interaction of everyday sustainability through actions in school life, providing an integrated environmental management system for schools based on an ISO 14001/EMAS approach. This study aimed to carry out an environmental diagnosis of a school community located in São Vicente – SP. The results were obtained through surveys carried out with students and audits on the topics of water, waste, energy, mobility, noise, biodiversity, sea, forest, school exterior spaces, organic agriculture, food and environmental management. Through the analysis of these results, it was concluded that the themes with the best environmental performance are: mobility, energy and noise. It was found that the higher the environmental management performance index, the better the results of the other indexes and consecutively the higher the global index. The overall index of the school community was 39.02%.