Planos de gestão de logística sustentável - pls no contexto de IFES: um estudo de casos múltiplos sobre a elaboração de pls à luz da educação ambiental crítica

Abstract

The Federal Institutions of Higher Education - IFES are, par excellence, spaces for reflection on the challenges of society, for the production of knowledge and the development of solutions to face these challenges. Additionally, decision-making positions within the scope of public policies, as well as in environments of the private sector, are, as a rule, occupied by people trained by Higher Education Institutions - IES. In this sense, the experiences produced by the HEIs play an important role in guiding the choices made by society. However, promoting sustainability in public administration is a major challenge. With this in mind, the Brazilian Federal Government published Decree No. 7,746/12, establishing criteria and practices for the promotion of sustainable national development. of Sustainable Logistics Management-PLS. In essence, the PLS is a planning instrument that guides public administration actions to meet sustainability aspects. Although the minimum criteria defined by the documents that regulate the construction of the PLS are focused on aspects of consumption and logistics, there is room for reflection and planning of actions that expand the interests of social groups. The study presented here is a research with mixed quali-quanti methodology, in which a priori a multiple case study was carried out, in order to understand an overview of how the process of building PLSs in IFES in Brazil occurs, looking for traces of Environmental Education in the PLSs already prepared. At another time, the focus of the research was the construction of the UFSB PLS, seeking to identify the paths to sustainability, the obstacles during the elaboration process and the potential. The mapping of features of Environmental Education in the construction of PLSs in IFES, brought some specific subsidies to analyze the elaboration of PLS, in view of the specific case of UFSB. The analysis in the case of UFSB starts from the non-negotiable commitment that the university brings in its founding documents and the choice of Environmental Education as a working group for the elaboration of the plan. One of the important results of this research is in the observation of a pattern in the construction of PLS in IFES, most of which appear traces of the various aspects of environmental education classified by Silva (2008) as conservative, pragmatic and critical, it is worth noting that the National Environmental Education Policy Environmental Education – PNEA is not mentioned in the documents that guide the preparation of plans as an initiative to be observed. In the specific case of UFSB, observing the basic principles of public policy on environmental education, such as the pluralism of ideas and pedagogical concepts, helps to understand the different concepts that permeate the elaboration of the plan and brings an important reflection on the contributions of objectives of this public policy as the encouragement of individual and collective, permanent and responsible participation in the balance of the environment as a possibility for strengthening institutional dialogue in the construction of PLS