Sistemas de gestão ambiental e seus impactos sociais

Abstract

The need for companies to manage aspects related to the environment is not something new, since the use of natural resources and the disposal of production residues have always occurred. In the last decades, with the emergence of new concepts, such as environmental preservation and sustainable development, greater pressure from society and customers and due to the increasing restrictions of legislation and environmental agencies, companies have started to change the style of their management environmental. Every company carries out its environmental management in some way, be it covering all the impacts generated or focusing on a few, centralizing the actions in a single department or distributing the responsibilities to several sectors, integrating the actions of identification, evaluation and prevention or acting in a dispersed form through different practices.