Evaluation of environmental management actions in professional and technological education institutions

Abstract

There is a research shortage on environmental education management indicators, which have allowed a specific sustainability criterion for schools. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and use of Environmental Sustainability Indicators (ESI) in the Brazilian Federal Institutes of Education (BFIE) to verify the efficiency of environmental management education. The equation used in the survey indicates that rates close to zero suggest maximum inefficiency in conservational management, whereas an index of 1, suggests maximum efficiency in environmental management. The equation has the variables pi = score assigned to the variable i; n = total number of variables i, i = 1, ..., 09 and m = total number of campuses j, j = 1, ..., 230. The Index of Environmental Performance in Federal Institutes (IEPFI) obtained in this study showed that the campuses presented indexes that did not exceed the value 0.35, where the ideal value would be 1.0.