Environmental management integrated with sustainable development: a case study in Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rossetto, Adriana Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Orth, Dora Maria, Rossetto, Carlos Ricardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6860
• topic: environmental management; sustainable development; urbanism; integrated urban environment management system.; gestão ambiental; desenvolvimento sustentável; urbanismo; sistema integrado de gestão do ambiente urbano.

Rapid urbanization has transformed natural spaces and interfered in the environment, with disastrous results both to the ecosystems and the quality of life of the people. This article proposes a new urban management system that integrates fragmented aspects in managerial procedures and really incorporates the social and environmental dimensions into the process, leading cities toward sustainable development. The system uses tools that allow community participation and strategic vision in the decision-making process. It also adapts development models used in business, such as the balanced scorecard and the ecosystemic analysis method, which can make a multilevel pondered balance of the indices obtained while monitoring the region under observation. An important discussion proposed by the article is that of defining sustainability indicators for each studied characteristic, con- sidering the need for parameters that can identify the cities¿ sustainability level. The city of Passo Fundo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, served as the pilot project to assess the proposed system.