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Purpose: Identify the perception of students of Applied Social Sciences courses regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic during their training the impacts at universities in the state of Paraná. Methodology: Data collection took place through an online questionnaire and had the participation of 115 students from two universities in Paraná. The questionnaire had open and closed questions and was divided into sections with demographic information, and the student's perception of the impact of the pandemic, for the analysis of closed questions, descriptive statistics was used, for open questions, content analysis was used. Results: As for remote teaching, approximately 72% of respondents reported difficulties in concentrating during classes, 80% of students thought about dropping out of the course during the pandemic and about 81% of respondents said that their studies were negatively affected by the pandemic, some factors pointed out by the students were the accumulation of academic activities, the unpreparedness of these students for self-study and the lack of an adequate environment for learning. Contributions of the Study: The work contributed to the academic society by identifying the negative perception that students had during remote teaching, to the literature on the impacts of the pandemic on higher education, because according to the students' perception, the pandemic had negative impacts on learning in their respective courses, in addition, the result indicates that students of Applied Social Sciences, in most of them do not have a very high family income and thus structural problems have arisen to follow classes in remote teaching, in this sense, public bodies need to pay attention to this type of need and adapt teaching to the conditions of these students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Analyze the level of environmental disclosure in Natura Cosmetics S.A.'s sustainability reports from 2001 to 2019 in the light of the Voluntary Disclosure Theory Methodology: We use the methodology developed by Clarkson et al. (2008), for data collection and analysis. The authors develop an index to assess the level of voluntary disclosure on environmental policies, performance and inputs, which are divided into 29 hard disclosure items and 16 soft disclosure items. Results: The results show that the maximum score obtained by the company is 59 (among the 95 possible points), reached in 2013 in the report of the GRI indicators. Additionally, regarding the hard items, the variation in the level of disclosure is from 9% to 49%, while for soft items the variation is from 19% to 88%. Contributions of the Study: The practical and theoretical contribution of the research is linked to the environmental disclosure of a large national company involved with the environment, in addition to increasing the literature on national environmental dissemination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]