Gestão ambiental: práticas de gestão ambiental executadas pela Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)

Abstract

In the last decades, the term sustainability has become increasingly widespread in society, either by the emergence of actions to reverse the human actions that over the centuries has been destroying nature, or by the preference of consumers for organizations that demonstrate socio-environmental responsibility. This work analyzed, in the light of Barbieri (2007) approaches such as pollution control, pollution prevention and strategic approach to environmental management, the practices carried out by the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) regarding environmental management and sustainable development . Thus, the institution's trajectory was understood, from practices harmful to the environment to the present day, where great changes in the environmental management of the university were perceived from the implantation of its environmental plan that organized in a single policy all the previously fragmented actions , Optimizing the use of resources, reducing the amount of pollution generation in the source and with the construction of the identity itself by the plan, where it started to serve as a reference for the application in other organizations.