Institucionalização da gestão sustentável no Tribunal de Justiça do Tocantins

Abstract

Issues related to the preservation of the environment have been an international concern, given the impact that malpractice of the use of natural resources has caused to nature. Discussions on the subject involving heads of States, scientists and civil society have brought about the need and commitment to seek mechanisms to reduce environmental degradation. The State, in its fundamental role regarding sustainable development, based on the economic, social and environmental tripod, implemented public policies aimed at raising awareness and importance of preserving the environment, establishing laws and disseminating programs imbued with actions meant at managing sustainable development. In this area, the Judiciary Power has implemented mechanisms and tools that are mandatory for all Courts in the country in order to effectively meet the requirements for sustainable activities. Thus, this research proposed the analysis of the institutionalization of sustainable management in the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins (TJTO), seeking to characterize the instruments of social and environmental management of the Court, to identify the perception of the employees about the institutionalization of socio-environmental management, as well as the potentialities and deficiencies in the process. The methodology was a qualitative-quantitative research, with an exploratory and descriptive objective. To obtain this information, were adopted methodological procedures, bibliographical and documentary research and application of questionnaires to the socio-environmental commission and servers with leadership positions of TJTO, turning into a case study that made it possible to propose improvements in the process of institutionalizing the sustainable management of the TJ/TO based on the deficiencies detected. With the results, it was possible to verify that the institutionalization of the sustainable management in the organ, with the occurrence of socio environmental practices linked to the preservation of the assets and natural resources and generated waste management. Finding positive points mainly regarding the implementation of the regulatory requirements imposed by the CNJ and negative points regarding the aspects related to the awareness and qualification of the servers. Thus, based on the perceived limitations, it was possible to suggest improvements to the process of institutionalization of social and environmental management, with the objective of eliminating them and maximizing the potentialities detected, so that it becomes fully effective and the process of institutionalization of sustainable management can be strengthened .