Bibliographic citations
Falero, M., (2018). Patrones de percepción ambiental de estudiantes en ecología y ciencias ambientales. Estudios de caso [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/3819
Falero, M., Patrones de percepción ambiental de estudiantes en ecología y ciencias ambientales. Estudios de caso [Tesis]. : Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/3819
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title = "Patrones de percepción ambiental de estudiantes en ecología y ciencias ambientales. Estudios de caso",
author = "Falero Sánchez, Mariza",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2018"
}
A questionnaire with landscape images was used to study environmental perception of graduate students. Students came from Master of Science programs in environmental sciences, applied ecology, environmental education and ecological tourism in Peruvian universities. Through a survey that includes the use of photographs, we investigated localization and emotional aspects of spatial environmental perception of natural landscapes. Simultaneous analysis of both aspects showed that two axes could explain perception patterns: the Anthropic/Emotional axe and the Natural/Anthropic axe. Based on these axes four perceptual groups (PG) can be defined: Emotional/Natural PG, Anthropic/Natural PG, Emotional/Anthropic PG and Anthropic/Anthropic PG. Statistical differences between groups were significant. The most important variables to explain differences in PG´s include the amount of wilderness in each student birthplace, the amount of artificiality as well as the preference of the career. It seems that the Emotional/Natural PG is the most primitive one, and the other PG´s have been derived from it. Evolution in the PG´s has implied the loss of some of the abilities of the primitive one, that is to say, the ability to identify natural landscape elements and the ability to become emotionally affected by the landscape. Consequences of this loss of abilities are discussed bearing in mind the expected skills for an environmental manager. Despite the differences among students of different PG, all of them have an evident preference to think of problems of gas emissions, polluted water and garbage disposal as the most important environmental problems in Peru. It appears it is a consequence of differences between mental models and the ways in which nature is perceived.
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