Ações pertinentes à implantação de um sistema de gestão ambiental na administração pública municipal

Abstract

The conscious that the end of natural resources and the disrespect to environment questions will cause, in short term, collapse in the way of men life been demanding a new posture from the citizen to feasibly, somehow, the continuity of life in this Planet. Be the common person, be the institution represented by it, only an effective and active posture can draw new contours to the future of life in Earth. In this reality, the public administration-remarkably the city public administration - has undeniable roll to convert important actions in tool for a direction of conducts, drawing the responsibility to itself and its commands in the invincible relation between man and environment. In this perspective, we investigate the viability of deploying an environmental management in the public administration that serve as a indicator of a rational procedure, effective and economically viable to the administration decision-making and that guarantee the natural environment protection and life quality, combining this decisions to the multidisciplinary that surround them, meaning, putting in harmony the environment and the life quality long with the economical and administrative interests that also occupied the public power through its various departments. The obligation of an environmental planning in the city public administration is seen from a parallel between the city planning and the Environmental Management System according to the rules of ISO 14001/2004. This parallel makes possible a creation of an organizational structure inside the city public administration that will act like an allied to discipline public actions, channeling them to a unique direction, whatever, directing them to the protection of natural resources and the respect for life in its more varied ways.