Práticas sustentáveis no Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Semiárido - Campus de Sumé - PB.

Abstract

The emergence of the concept of sustainable development has brought changes in the companies' way of acting, in the sense of adopting everyday practices that show respect and concern for the environment. In this context of changes, the Higher Education Institutions (IES) are also pressed to be active agents of this action, once they possess an important role in the sense of defining and applying policies aimed at the development of an environmental awareness through research, teaching and extension actions, as well as the implementation of sustainable practices through their management. This way, the goal of the present study is to identify sustainability practices in the Semiarid Sustainable Development Center – Campus of Sumé – PB, in the aspects of teaching, research, extension and management. Regarding the approach to the problem, this research is classified as qualitative and as for the methodological procedures, case study is used. For that, we have made use of documentary research, interviews and we applied a checklist that addresses A3P's thematic axes. It was evidenced that there are disciplines in most courses, as well as research and extension projects, that contemplate the theme and some sustainability actions being developed in the current management, however, isolated, once it was not possible to observe an effective institutional policy aimed at campus sustainability. The analysis of the results indicated the need to broaden the discussion about sustainability with all segments that make up the institution, since the subject requires effort from the entire academic community to achieve the expected results, both in teaching, research and extension as in university management.