Sustainability in University Campuses and Environmental Education Policy: Complementary Governances Toward Consciousness Structure in Carbon Emissions Reductions

Abstract

Currently, cities have been increasingly demanding of their managers concerned with their ability to adapt to climate change in the face of their environmental impacts as happens with the management in the university campuses, although, with its perspectives of lower dimensions. In this sense, the university can promote involvement through integrative actions with the surrounding community in order to build the educational environment of carbon reduction applicable to the resilience and city’s sustainability. This paper focuses on the Brazilian environmental public policies constitutional debate and the feasibility of encouraging legal instruments toward inclusion of educational initiatives to change the cultural environment to approach the community as an instrument to raise consciousness and environmental consciousness in participatory development by measures of optimization of Logistics and mobility of users or citizens. Its objective aims to investigate and discuss the feasibility of partnerships for the direction on main integrated community structure in university campuses with the dedication of urban mobility instruments. The methodology of legal and documentary primary doctrinal analysis of the principles of participation and sustainable development demonstrates the comparative argumentation of a participatory and democratic society. The hypotheses indicate that a participatory system increases people’s consciousness and Social Environmental Commitment (SEC) and their life quality. In general, the efforts of university governance involving its human capital and its environment in these actions contribute to evidence of integration and protection of the common good leading to careful outcomes with the cities in parallels.