Gestão socioambiental na administração pública: uma análise do processo de institucionalização no Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Paraná

Abstract

The environmental problem, with all its impacts and risks, became evident from the 1960s onwards, and since then, global movements and debates have taken shape with a view to environmental sustainability. In addition to this macro-level debate, it is indispensable to adopt actions that minimize impacts and environmental degradation at the micro level, with the involvement of the various social actors, among which, the public power, which should present alternatives to management environmental in public administration in Brazil, through the implementation of effective socio-environmental policies. In this context, the present study aimed to analyze the process of institutionalization of social-environmental management in Public Administration, adopting as reference, the Regional Electoral Court of Paraná, a component body of the Federal Judiciary. For this, the investigation and data collection was based on information derived from interviews and documental research. The documentary research made possible the theoretical, conceptual, legal and regulatory clarifications regarding socio-environmental management in Public Administration and in Electoral Justice. The interviews, which were elaborated and applied to the servants of this Judicial Body, aimed at evaluating the socio-environmental actions developed in the TRE / PR, through the triangulation of data obtained from the different views of the interviewees and the actions prescribed in specific regulations. Based on this information, the analysis was essentially qualitative, inferring in this process limitations and potentialities, among others, those related to (i) socio-environmental public policies issued in the Electoral Court; (ii) to the Social and Environmental Commission of the Court; (iii) social and environmental awareness-raising actions and, (iv) those related to the availability of information to the society of the socio environmental actions developed. The results showed that the process of institutionalization of socio-environmental management in the Regional Electoral Court of Paraná is under way, which, in order to become fully effective, must eliminate the inferred limitations, as well as explore and maximize the potentialities identified.