Perception and connectedness with marine and coastal environments: the perspective of basic education and undergraduate students from two Brazilian cities

Resumo

This work investigated the perception and connectedness with marine and coastal environments of basic education and undergraduate students from coastal and non-coastal cities. Our results highlighted a utilitarian view among all student groups, since they cited food and location as main types of relation with the environments. In addition, few basic education students from the non-coastal city can establish a relation with these environments. This could happen because people in general have difficulty establishing relationships with physically distant environments from their daily lives.