RT Journal Article
T1 Campus Decarbonization: Students’ Perceptions for Reducing Meat Consumption in a Portuguese University
A1 Figueiredo, Catarina
A1 Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda
A1 García Vinuesa, Antonio
A1 Carvalho, Sara Daniela Fontes da Costa
K1 Climate change mitigation
K1 Meat consumption
K1 Universities
K1 Education
K1 Health
AB This study is focused on perceptions regarding meat consumption, targeting university students. This is a timely topic in a context of climate change (CC), sustainability in agri-food systems and in universities. Recently, some universities adopted food-related CC mitigation measures, by removing some types of meat from their canteens. This research intended to find trends, at a Portuguese university, on consumption habits and on willingness to reduce meat. The methodology follows a quantitative and descriptive approach. The universe is the students’ community from the University of Aveiro, with a random sample of 876 valid questionnaires. Although results show that meat is a substantial part of students’ diet, most of them are willing to reduce this product, and mainly for environmental reasons. Undergraduate students have higher level of awareness in this matter, namely from Natural Sciences. Female students are more receptive to diet changes. Further studies and educational actions on Diet-CC should be promoted in all levels of Academy, especially in PhD, Social Sciences and with gender differentiation. Such results may support an effectively participatory discussion to better decide on decarbonization of the Campus through the diet
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26510
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26510
LA eng
NO Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6048; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116048
NO Thanks are due for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2019), to FCT/MCTES through national funds, and the co-funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. This work was also supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under pos-doc Grant SFRH/BPD/116379/2016
DS Minerva
RD 8 jun 2026