Gestão ambiental nas instituições de ensino: desafios da implantação da comissão interna de sustentabilidade do Instituto Federal da Bahia (Câmpus Salvador)

Abstract

This work had as a thematic, the Environmental Sustainability Internal Comission (ESIC), at a campus of Federal Institute for Education Science and Technology of Bahia, seeking to identify the main challenges to the implantation of a System of Environmental Management in an institution of education, of such complexity at an institute that offers technological courses of different modalities (high school, technical courses, graduation, education for young people and adults), which practical activities take place in different laboratories, what results in residuum of different species, besides, the campus needs a lot of natural resources to led its activities. Thus, we seek to identify in this research the main activities developed by the ESIC since its constitution, in 2012, as soon as, understand how strong is the commitment of Institute´s community to sustainable initiatives eventually pomoted by the Comission.