Responsabilidade socioambiental na perspectiva de uma realidade para as empresas de transporte urbano: um estudo de caso - a cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The Social-Environmental Responsibility has been a major issue for the technological development of all companies. Regardless of their field of work, increasing concern with the environment issue is bringing up the aspect of minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. In this field, the actions go from the study of recycling to minimize in the generation of industrial effluents. Thus, the study in question aimed to identify, in the field of public transportation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, how it has been addressed the issue of environmental sustainability. Based on this assumption, this research consisted in conducting a survey along with different companies to identify the level of internalization of the concepts related to social-environmental sustainability in the different hierarchical levels of which they are composed, but also to identify possible initiatives to be adopted with regard to the disposal of different wastes generated in their activities and possible programs for reuse of water employed in the cleaning of vehicles. By means of the triangulation of methods, it was noticed, regarding both the State and the City of Rio de Janeiro, that although the Federation of urban transport companies of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FETRANSPOR) and the syndicate of bus companies of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Rio Ônibus) report that there is a program related to environmental issues, it basically focuses on aspects related to the vehicular emission and energy efficiency control program, via the use of biodiesel. In addition to this initiative, an environmental compensation program providing a planting of 120 thousand seedlings of mangrove species, although it does not address other initiatives in the field of environmental sustainability. The study also showed that although 100 percent of the surveyed companies indicate that the movement of social-environmental responsibility (SRA) will bring an improvement in the company's image among the different observers, only 40 percent are committed to it, have a social integration program, know the rules and identify the possibility of having a program.