Estratégias sistêmicas para criação de normas de gestão ambiental na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

Environmental issues are local and global discussions today. Contemporary solutions urge the way of governing for behavior of production and rational consumption that can reduce negative impacts on natural resources. Thus, environmental management must be an instrumental support for the implementation and maintenance of sustainability in all its dimensions (Environmental, Social, Economic, Policy, Juridical and Cultural). Thus, the process of growth acceleration must have a correct Systemic Strategic Planning considering the different variables that involves all the expansion process. Federal Institutions of Higher Education cannot ignore this phenomenon. Therefore, people involved in actions of Teaching, Research and Extension must drive their strategies to create management law focused simultaneously in innovation and sustainability. Thus, this work aims to analyze the Systemic Strategies to create sustainable management laws at Federal University of Santa Maria. This work also aims to identify policies and environmental actions at some institutions of higher education that have institutionalized plans for trying to subsidize or show possibilities of creating an Environmental Management System at Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM. This research has descriptive and qualitative analysis. The complex-systemic perspective is configured as theory base and methodological approach. The procedures are bibliographic data-collection and documental analysis that made possible through the production technique of book reports, tables and extended abstracts. The main result is an observation to the real need for implementing a structure that guides the environmental actions in UFSM. This structure is the creation to the Integrated Environmental Management System.