Consumo sustentável entre universitários

Abstract

The consumption patterns in which our society is placed nowadays are highly stimulated by the uncontrolled use of the natural resources and the constant acquisition of new products by the population. Willing to brake this behavior and promote one most equilibrated relation between the human life on Earth and the nature’s resources was developed the concept of Sustainable Consumption, which consists on the adoption of habits that causes less negative impacts in the environment and the society. In parallel to this advent the world was stricken in the year of 2020 by one pandemic of the disease known as COVID-19, which due to its highly power of transmission made the people find themselves in social isolation during months, stopping several economics and social activities. With the aim to verify the behavior of college students from UFC before and after the quarantine for the virus prevention, it was made one survey in the format of digital form to investigate their practices in what it concerns to the Sustainable Consumption. It was observed that most of the interviewees are directing their lifestyle to a new reality most equilibrated with the nature, however it is still needed one higher stimulation to this behavior. It was also verified that the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant changes in the students’ habits, some of them with possibilities to remain even after the fall of the disease outbreak