Universidade e sustentabilidade: proposta de diretrizes e ações para uma universidade ambientalmente sustentável

Abstract

The Dissertation of Master in Applied Ecology to Management and Conservation of Natural Resource aims to provide a main proposal of guidelines and actions for the promotion of environmentally sustainable university, addressing issues related to organizational structure, institutional planning, management and operational training for sustainability. Experiences of several institutions of higher education in Brazil and the world are presented and discussed, to indicate ways to incorporate sustainability into activities of teaching, research, extension and the university management. In this spirit, this paper addresses the need of IES act effectively reducing the environmental impacts resulting from its processes and facilities and, in the training of professionals aware, competent and committed to, as future decision-makers, players assume the role of in the transition to a sustainable society.