Social Representation of Sustainable Development Models in Students at a Mexican Public University

For many people, the current environmental crisis is directly related to the prevailing development model, which is unsustainable (Wals and Jickling 2002; Fernández-Crispin et al. 2005). This model is not only behind the divorce between humankind and nature, but also attempts to put the longest distance possible between them, generating the idea that human issues are outside nature (Gladwin et al. 1995). Within this nature-society confrontation, we are becoming less concerned about what nature can do to us (droughts, floods, etc.) and more concerned about what we have done to nature (Giddens 2002).