Agenda ambiental na administração pública: uma análise da adesão da UFS às diretrizes propostas pela A3P

Abstract

Initiatives to the reduction of natural resources consumption that promote actions against waste, aiming to minimize or eliminate the negative impacts to the environment assuring a sustainable development, encourage society to adopt new consumption patterns and referentials. The Public Administration Environmental Agenda (A3P) plays an important role in the public and private sectors and because of that has progressively been gaining more space in different contexts, what stresses how important its applicability is to public institutions. The Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) concerned about socioenvironmental issues joined the A3P on April 29th, 2015. The adopted methodology is qualitative, bibliographical and documental, since it aims to carry out a survey of materials, as well as theoretical and documental references necessary to understand the components that enrich the research. For Lakatos and Marconi (2003, p. 33) “[...] bibliographic and documental research are specific types of scientific production based on texts, such as books, scientific articles, critical essays [...]”. The method applied has descriptive nature, as it aims to describe UFS’s documents. The results show that there are environmental policies strongly supported by A3P at the Federal University of Sergipe, and this can be noticed in the internal and external environment, such as: monitoring of trees, tactile floors, prohibition of disposable cups in the university restaurant, selective collection, adoption of containers and concern for the quality of life of servers in the university community; these measures were intensified as of 2012. Despite all these improvements, managers need to train and help cleaning employees, as they dispose waste inadequately.