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- Contribution to social sustainability and the gender equality at public universities: women empowerment in the brazilian contextPublication . Borges, Rives Rocha; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Barros, NelsonOrganizations worldwide are facing challenges in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) integrating the 2030 Agenda, defined by the United Nations (UN). Among these goals, it is the SDG 5 on gender equity (GE), which addresses the need to increase the necessary skills for workers to achieve empowerment and leadership in management positions. Full and effective participation with equal opportunities to women to occupy leadership positions in all sectors of society must be guaranteed, reducing gender inequality, thus allowing social sustainability to be accomplished. Slowly but gradually, the understanding about the SDG 5 is gaining strength in the context of the Brazilian society. With the slogan “The woman’s place is wherever she wants!”, the Brazil’s women seek to guarantee equal rights and opportunities. With women representing 51.8% of the Brazilian population, the GE in Brazil is a significant daily achievement. An exploratory study was conducted to collect the data, through a quantitative and qualitative descriptive approach. This chapter will connect the women empowerment (WE) with the effective occupation of the top career positions at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). This subject is an important issue in the social sustainability context in a public university in the north-eastern region of Brazil. The chapter will discuss the GE as proposed by the UN in SDG 5, based on the fact that 45.8% of high hierarchical positions at UFBA are occupied by women, therefore illustrating the WE as part of the social responsibility’s trajectory towards the full achievement of societal sustainable development.
- Linking low family income to waste recycling in a brazilian public universityPublication . Borges, Rives Rocha; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Barros, NelsonSolid waste (SW) production is a global concern addressed in the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations Agenda 2030. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) must make progress in recycling waste. When disposed of incorrectly, waste, comprising cardboard, paper, metal, plastic, and glass, contaminates the environment and promotes the vectors’ proliferation, with negative consequences to the human health. Recycling waste has a positive impact on the preservation of the environment, on the economy, on human health, and also impacting on the income of poor families involved in the collection process. The Management Reports (MR) instituted by the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA ) were used to collect data obtained by the Recycle selective collection program at UFBA. MR, by Decree no. 5940, of October 25, 2006, determine the implementation of the SW selective collection in federal public institutions and subsequent delivery to waste pickers’ cooperatives. The secondary data obtained from the MR will be quantitatively and qualitatively discussed and compared with the available literature in Elsevier, SciELO, Scopus, Science Direct, and Web of Science databases. Part of the waste generated within HEIs can be recycled. Sustainable waste management (WM) will then result in an environmentally sustainable campi , a healthy workplace, with HEIs also playing an important social role supporting low-income families. All SW collected inside the campi is sold to packaging manufacturers, often being the only source of income for waste pickers’ families.
- Sustainability practices in a public university in Bahia, BrazilPublication . Borges, Rives Rocha; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Barros, NelsonThe search for economic development together with the preservation of the environment is an increasingly popular worldwide issue. As bodies for the production and dissemination of knowledge, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) not only work for the research on sustainable methods, processes and technologies, but they also exercise and serve as an example for society with the implementation of sustainable practices. Within the scope of a public university in Bahia, Brazil, sustainability actions, a work team periodically visits the units of the institution in order to guide workers and students on the segregation of waste in suitable containers. Waste such as paper, plastic, glass and cell phone batteries and other electronics device are collected and given proper disposal, which means it can be sent to university units that work on recycling materials, to registered recycling cooperatives or, in the case of batteries, to manufacturers able to recover materials. Green areas’ conservation and fauna’s protection within the University’s campus are also the focus of the team’s intervention. The HEIs Management Reports (MR), institutional communication tools made available from the studied public university, were used to collect the data. This document is based on the Sustainable Logistic Plan (SLP) established by normative instruction n.10, of November 2012. Thus, this work seeks to report waste and green areas’ sustainability practices experiences implemented by a public university, in Bahia, Brazil, in order to highlight the gains for the environment, for the institution itself and for the culture of a sustainable society. Specific aspects around sustainability, with an emphasis on the generation and management of waste is related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the Agenda 2030, are discussed based on data obtained in the institution’s MR.
- Sustainable development within higher education institutions: the occupational health field examplePublication . Borges, Rives Rocha; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Barros, NelsonThe sustainability term is widely used to define the scope of the principles and practices that are translated into the operationalization of actions and projects aiming to contribute to the citizens' quality of life. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a preponderant role in the implementation of sustainability, having among its objectives the promotion and improvement of the health and well-being of individuals and their environments, including work environments in the scope of actions encompassing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by 2030 Agenda. The Work Health Promotion (WHP) must be aligned with the concept of sustainability in HEIs and one way of approaching this concept is through the Technical Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between HEIs and other public institutions, for an integrated and efficient approach toward the sustainability in the worker's health issues. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized and consolidated that, compliance with the health-related SDGs, would only be possible through health professionals. The TCA presented in this research has the goal to translate the desired approach to achieve sustainable development (SD) in HEIs. This chapter will present and discuss the setup of the TCA established between the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and other federal public institutions during the implementation of the Federal Public Worker Health Care Integrated Subsystem (SIASS). In this context, the connections between the implemented agreements and the SDG 3, i.e., health and well-being, and SDG 17, i.e., partnerships for the goals, through public and public–private partnerships, will be addressed to support SD in HEIs. To achieve the study’s objective, exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative research was made to identify how UFBA plays a leadership role in implementing sustainability practices in WHP policies and by establishing TCA in the field of occupational health with other public federal institutions in the state of Bahia.
- Well-being at work and sustainability in public services: Brazilian University casePublication . Borges, Rives Rocha; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Barros, NelsonWhen reflecting about the subjectivity implicit in the tasks’ execution and in the affective relationships developed in the work environment, the psychosocial factors influencing work are frequently ignored. Excessive demand, hierarchical requirements, and discontent are issues that, if poorly managed, can contribute to the worker’s mental illness and have a significant impact on the quality of the work performed. In the specific case of a public university, where workers interact directly with people, illness goes beyond the limits of the work environment. It disqualifies the service provided to the university’s community and the society that needs it. In line with this, actions to attain a better quality of life and well-being at work will be discussed, as well as demands to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 in particular, i.e., good health and well-being. In discussion’s scope are the challenges faced by the Quality of Work Life Centre (QWLC) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in implementing a quality of work life (QWL) policy. QWLC has the mission of taking care of issues involving relationships at work, including remote work, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In University’s documents, exploratory research was conducted to collect data related to the QWL policy. A descriptive qualitative analysis was then performed, analysing scientific publications available in selected databases. The results demonstrate UFBA’s effort to improve the social-affective conditions in the institution’s workplaces and its effective interest in contributing to SDG 3.