Agenda ambiental: desafios na integração de ações e mobilização de pessoas para cultura da sustentabilidade

Abstract

This study aims to characterize the socio-environmental scenario of a federal institution of higher education, with a view to subsidizing the development of culture of sustainability of their internal Community. To this end, we conducted a survey of data to identify the social and environmental performance of the institution, on the basis of five main thematic axes of the Environmental Agenda of public administration (A3P), namely: waste management, sustainable procurement, quality of life in the workplace, sensitizing and training of servers and rational use of resources. In addition, by means of a structured questionnaire, sampling survey was carried out to evaluate the environmental perception of internal University community, featuring 387 subjects, among students, teachers and administrative-technical. Thus, the study was classified as a scientific research applied in nature, descriptive and quantitative approach, covering procedures for bibliographical research, documentary and field. The collected data were treated for descriptive analysis, construction of indicators and analysis of variance with multiple comparison test, which made it possible to develop a discussion about the scenario and trace performance prospects of an environmental agenda in the institution. As a result, there was a scene of great potentiality for sustainable performance, however characterized by fragmentation of efforts and initiatives that lead actors involved the work of isolated way. The internal Community presented trends of good environmental perception, however with dichotomy between beliefs and practices, reinforced by internal communication noises, which form barriers and make people realize the benefits of social-environmental actions. Finally, the findings have permitted assessing the implementation of an environmental agenda in the institution, built under the principles of transparency and collective participation, steady as a determining factor for integrating existing and promising potential for the development of the culture of sustainability, assuming advances in innovation perspective, from the learning process provided by the agenda.