摘要 : Great responsibility has been given to environmental educators to increase awareness of the importance of nature conservation and of the processes involved. It is usually assumed that people lack knowledge about the environment an... 展开 Great responsibility has been given to environmental educators to increase awareness of the importance of nature conservation and of the processes involved. It is usually assumed that people lack knowledge about the environment and this leads to neglect of or harm to the environment. The central problem of interest in this paper is whether knowledge of environmental processes and even involvement in professional activities related to environmental issues are sufficient to produce environmentally friendly attitudes and behavior. We focus on the behavior of researchers and students of post-graduate programs in ecology and the waste produced by their research in permanent experimental plots in an Ecological Reserve of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in the Federal District, central Brazil, which constitutes a breach of the written agreement with the institution that sponsored the research. We analyze our results within the theoretical frameworks of environmental education, philosophy and history of science. 收起