Melissa Curi

A Interdisciplinaridade e a Percepção de Estudantes Universitários sobre as Mudanças Climáticas

Brasilia, an urban center located in a biome in increasing process of degradation, in addition to contributing to the emissions of greenhouse gases, currently presents environmental modifications due to climate change (CC). Thus, this article had the objective of analyzing undergraduate students’ perceptions from various courses at the University of Brasilia regarding climate change, to discuss the importance of undergraduate education for the much needed transformations in favor of proenvironmental behaviors. The application of questionnaires (N=1526) in 04 groups of subjects (CC perception; climatic knowledge; UnB and CC; personal beliefs) provided the conclusion that students from multi-disciplinary courses have advanced knowledge regarding the climatic theme and the anthropogenic role in those changes. Interdisciplinarity is then discussed as an important strategy for increasing students’ perception of climatic and environmental changes , with the ability to instigate mitigation and adaptation strategies and consideration of climate issues inside and outside the university sphere.

Sempre teremos Paris

A partir desse numero 2, do volume 8, SeD passa a ser publicada de forma mais condensada, mas nao menos profunda e interessante que a versoes anteriores. Algumas secoes, como resenhas e debate, deixam de ser presenca obrigatoria em todos os numeros e passam a ser publicados apenas em algumas edicoes. Optamos em dar enfase aos artigos Varia, como forma de ressaltar a importância da diversidade de temas e perspectivas relacionados a sustentabilidade. Diante do cenario politico nacional e internacional, no qual a classe politica dominante enrijece as suas acoes para assegurar interesses economicos imediatistas, desprezando diversidades culturais e a integridade ambiental, faz-se necessario valorizar a pluralidade, nas suas mais diversas dimensoes, como elemento essencial para a sustentabilidade do planeta.

O DIREITO CONSUETUDINÁRIO DOS POVOS INDÍGENAS E O PLURALISMO JURÍDICO

This paper aims to characterize the common or customary law of indigenous peoples in order to identify the legal pluralism existent in Brazil. Whereas each society presents its own social organization; positive law -- written, codified and founded on the state -- is not the only source of law, neither the safest or fairest manner to sort societies. The orality and the absence of the state in form of entity, which characterize customary law, give dynamism to indigenous societies and sort these communities based on the social body’s inherent rules.