Análise cienciométrica sobre educação e sustentabilidade ambiental

Abstract

to solve the problems of the environment in an active way, whether individual or collective. Environment sustainability, on the other hand, is defined as a development that avoids harming the resources of future generations. Through scienciometrics, it is possible to quantify and investigate the scientific production of various topics, including education and environmental sustainability. Therefore, the objective of this work was to characterize and to quantify the scientific production on education and environmental sustainability of studies indexed on the Scopus bibliographic database. Scopus was used as database thanks to its comprehensiveness in the quantative and qualitative aspects of the published journals, followed by the reading of these scientific sources to later select those who are close or direct with the theme of the work. Finally, the data were organized in spreadsheets and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The selected articles (n = 204) with the highest increase was from the year of 2010 and and low increase between 1998 and 2009. The original articles representes the highest frequency (71,6%) among the researched works. The United States, Australia and Brasil are the three countries with the highest number of publications (40, 24 and 24, respectively). The journals Sustainability Switzerland (n = 14), Austrailian Journal of Environmental Education (n = 10) and Environmental Education Research (n = 9) stand out. Among the educational institutions, those in Lisbon, São Paulo and Deakin published 5, 4 and 4 publications. The area of knowledge with the highest number on publications was the Social Sciences (n = 137). The investigation of environmental impacts on tourism was the objective of the work with the highest number of citations (n = 285). However, the sustainable development is importante for the awareness of society to ally with the nature, avoiding extreme spending of resources to future human generations.