Educação ambiental e construção civil: a importância da implantação de vegetação arbórea nativa nos índices verdes das construções civis de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

Awareness raising about environmental education in companies is necessary to stimulate reflection on the needs of nature conservation and generate proactive changes in this regard. This attitude about the environment can be developed in different ways, to form environmental multipliers. Then, this work is justified to think about the undesirable situations that happen in the urban environment because the unplanned development, resulting in problems such as environmental degradation, flooding, air and soil pollution along with loss of native vegetation. Thematizing Environmental Education in the scenario of urban civil construction companies at Santa Maria city / Rio Grande do Sul state - Brazil, the objective was to know the perception of construction companies about the importance of the green index required in each work, to know the type of vegetation they use and to identify the difficulties in the construction to implementation of green areas. In order to encourage the use of native tree species in green indices, educational material was created dealing with the importance of implanting this vegetation in large urban centers, with its benefits, care and species appropriate to the situation. The research uses the qualitative method with data collection techniques from questionnaires formulated with closed and open questions. Therefore, this work promoted a social and environmental initiative that informed important data to there is awareness of builders in search of more sustainable actions, given that their works directly impact the quality of life of the population due to interventions of natural resources or even not available this.