Improving the Environmental Work at University of Passo Fundo, Brazil - Towards an Environmental Management System

• Autor(a) principal: brandli, luciana Londero
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Frandoloso, Marcos Leite, Tauchen, Joel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://bjopm.org.br/bjopm/article/view/V8N1A3
• topic: Sustainable university; Environmental management system; Environmental planning; Practices; PDCA

an important issue in Institutions of Higher Education (IHE). This paper aims to analyze thesustainable practices already implemented by the University of Passo Fundo (UPF), locatedin the Southern Brazil, and then, points out the guidelines for a sustainable environmentalmanagement, involving academic activities and the campus infrastructure. The analysisand diagnosis has been produced through the application of a methodology embedded inPDCA cycle, in order to verify on which way UPF has been facing such subjects. The basisof the proposal is a survey on national and international benchmarks with good practices ofenvironmental sustainability at university campus Finally, are proposed some guidelines toreview the environmental assessment process to following-up of the implementation of an ownEnvironmental Management System. The research presents the conclusion that initiatives ofsustainable principles have been adopted by several universities, but with an isolated approach,and the UPF the main problem is the absence of a consistent Environmental Policy that mustconcentrate these actions and efforts towards an effective EMS. Some actions are suggestedto UPF for improved your EMS.