Análise da sustentabilidade ambiental com o auxílio do SICOGEA em uma organização militar da guarnição de Santa Maria-RS

Abstract

The Brazilian Army, part of the federal public sphere, carries out activities that interact with the environment, like any other productive segment. Given this fact, this study has as main purpose to analyze the degree of environmental sustainability of a military organization, headquartered in the city of Santa Maria – RS. To that end, there was a qualitative and descriptive analysis of the data which were obtained by means of a checklist, in structured form format. This study aimed to describe the processes of interaction, environmental activities, held by the Organization; identify the environmental aspects and impacts associated to the activity developed by the application of semi-structured interview, determine and analyze the sustainability indexes from the constituents of SICOGEA criteria. The results showed that the level of Global sustainability of the Organization was ranked 58,98%, being considered a regular level of sustainability. This result shows that the institution has some practice in environmental issues, but there is a vast stage for the evolution and improvement of such practices. One of the criteria of the survey that stood out positively was the item management of Military Organization, classified as good, reaching a score of 69,69%. And what else is in need of improvements was with the vendor item, classified as weak, reaching 35,00%. Thus, based on the results found in the study, it was observed that there are points and aspects that can be improved and used, raising the Military Organization's sustainability indexes.