Revista Gestão Universitária na América Latina (Jan 2011)
GESTÃO AMBIENTAL EM INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR - UMA ANÁLISE DA ADERÊNCIA DE UMA INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR COMUNITÁRIA AOS OBJETIVOS DA AGENDA AMBIENTAL NA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA (A3P)
Abstract
Discussions about sustainability, social responsibility and environmental management has gained importance and impact in recent decades. The brazilian government as a promoter of public policies and actions that guide sustainable development, created the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration (A3P). Open to accession by all entities of the public, the government program aims to align the public administrations of new practices that promote sustainable development. Thus this research seeks to analyze the adherence of a Community institution of higher education A3P. For this, the case study, exploratory andr qualitative approach has adopted the following methodology course: Initially we proceeded to review the literature. Then and applied with a checklist for those responsible for central administration of the institution and, finally, we proceeded to the analysis of results. These results show that the institution meets the five goals.Regarding the themes there is the need for improvement in the actions regarding the quality of life of employees of the institution. As it is observed that the bottleneck in the environmental management of the institution, is in relation to sustainable procurement,which was identified as non-existent in the organization.