Presídios sustentáveis a partir da implementação de sistemas de gestão ambiental integrados: um estudo na Penitenciária Procurador Romero Nóbrega de Patos - PB.

Abstract

The guiding principle behind this research is to validate and propose the idea of making prisons sustainable by implementing environmental management systems integrated with other systems, with the Procurador Romero Nóbrega Maximum Security Penitentiary located in the city of Patos - PB as a starting point. The research introduces a new perspective to studies on sustainable prisons as an alternative for the prison system. It is a master's dissertation based on three scientific articles whose contents are related and complement each other in the direction of an original proposal aimed at the field of study. To this end, the methodology adopted in the research is classified as a case study of a qualitative nature, with exploratory and descriptive objectives and bibliographical, documentary and field procedures. In order to delve deeper into studies related to sustainable prisons, specifically integrated management systems capable of contributing to prison sustainability, the research entered the thematic field of the Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs and the Management Excellence Model - MEG. With this in mind, this work aims to analyse how the Procurador Romero Nóbrega Penitentiary in Patos - PB has internalized an integrated perspective of its environmental management systems in its management practices, with a view to sustainability. To this end, the dissertation aimed to map the most relevant studies on the themes: Sustainable Prisons, Integrated Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability Indicators; to evaluate the management and operational conditions of the Romero Nóbrega Penitentiary in Patos - PB, as well as to show how integrated environmental management in the penitentiary contributes to sustainability in prisons. The results were distributed in three articles that formed the basis of the theoretical review of this dissertation, generating a proposal for a new model of prisons for the penitentiary system, based on sustainability. As a summary of the results obtained and the study's contributions, it should be noted that in order to have an integrated management system that contributes to prison sustainability, it is necessary to combine two mediating variables, which are the SDGs and the Management Excellence Model (MEG), with efficient integration and capable of achieving sustainability in all its essence: environmental, social and economic.