Objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável e municipalização em São Bento – PB: uma etapa preliminar.

Abstract

Concerns about a more sustainable form of development increase every day. Discussions on this issue are expanding more and more with a view to reducing resources and increasing the impacts of uncontrolled use of these resources on man and the environment. In view of this, the objectives of sustainable development (ODS), a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), were developed in order to improve the quality of life of the population and use resources in a sustainable manner, taking into account the needs of the population. Knowing that in order to achieve these objectives, the participation of the population is extremely important. The main objective of this work was to evaluate the priority objectives of sustainable development for the city of São Bento - PB, according to the population and municipal managers' point of view. For this purpose, a questionnaire was elaborated on the objectives of sustainable development (ODS) to analyze the population's opinion about them. Analyzing the municipality in particular, it was observed that part of the population knows the importance of some attitudes that are essential to achieve the objectives, but do not practice them, the great majority is still lacking in information and the majority of the population both of Traders as managers are unaware of the ODS. The contribution of this work was based on the possibility of assisting in the planning and implementation of socio-environmental public policies.