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promote a diagnosis establishment, actions, and, consequently short-, medium- and
long-term goals (Lemos et al. 2018).
The University of São Paulo-USP/Brazil gathers a broad community (117,118.00
people) including professors, universities staff, as well as undergraduate and graduate
students in a 76,437,742, 45 m
2 area on seven different campuses over the capital of
São Paulo state, inland and coastal (USP Statistical Yearbook 2018).
Due to its many specificities and thinking about Universities sustainability, the
elaboration of an Environmental Policy (EP) for USP had its onset in 2009 due to
Working Groups (WG). The strengthening of this idea came with the creation of a
Superintendence of Environmental Affairs (SGA) in 2012, along with the endorsement of the EP/USP publication in January 2018 by the 7465 resolution (USP 2018).
Therefore, the EP main goal was preferably conducting and providing legitimacy
to sustainability actions within the University, regarding preservation, conservation
and the rational use of natural resources. The addressed topics were Green Areas and
Ecological Reserves, Mobility, Greenhouse Gases and Pollutants Emission, Environmental Education, Fauna, Water and Effluents, Sustainable Buildings, Solid Waste,
Energy, Territorial Use and Occupation, and Management (Lemos et al. 2019).
Since the EP publication, several actions have been developed on different
campuses in order to implement their themes, considering the contextual alignment of their specificities. Among these actions was the Environmental Master
Plans (EMPs) and Pilot Projects (PPs) elaboration, that are projects supported by
SGA/USP resources to develop sustainable and replicable actions in different University contexts; participation in worldwide rankings such as Greenmetric (18th position in 2019, first place in Latin America), as well as taking part in different forums,
as the Climate Change (COP), and the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development (HLPF) at the United Nations (Lemos et al. 2018).
USP’s participation in international forums led the university to consider worldwide frameworks. The United Nations General Assembly established on September
25th, 2015 70/1 resolution a set of 17 global objectives denominated Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), followed by 169 goals to be achieved by 2030, according
to the Agenda 2030 (United Nations 2015).
The sustainable development proposed by SDGs englobes all the three Economic,
Social and Environmental perspectives. The University of São Paulo has sought
to bring its activities to meet the Agenda 2030, collaborating with the society to
achieve the goals proposed by the United Nations. One of the main challenges when
dealing with broad guidelines of international scope is an adequate local context,
thus avoiding a thematic detachment.
The link between the University’s actions and SDGs can be assessed through
network analysis, a worldwide applied approach especially relevant when interrelationships between actors, organizations or themes are required (Batagelj 1998).
With the advance on computer programs, the accessible Gephi Software appears
allowing real-time associations visualization, interactive techniques, data filtering,
and statistics application with a great visual result (Bastian et al. 2009).
T. Ambrizzi et al.
promote a diagnosis establishment, actions, and, consequently short-, medium- and
long-term goals (Lemos et al. 2018).
The University of São Paulo-USP/Brazil gathers a broad community (117,118.00
people) including professors, universities staff, as well as undergraduate and graduate
students in a 76,437,742, 45 m
2 area on seven different campuses over the capital of
São Paulo state, inland and coastal (USP Statistical Yearbook 2018).
Due to its many specificities and thinking about Universities sustainability, the
elaboration of an Environmental Policy (EP) for USP had its onset in 2009 due to
Working Groups (WG). The strengthening of this idea came with the creation of a
Superintendence of Environmental Affairs (SGA) in 2012, along with the endorsement of the EP/USP publication in January 2018 by the 7465 resolution (USP 2018).
Therefore, the EP main goal was preferably conducting and providing legitimacy
to sustainability actions within the University, regarding preservation, conservation
and the rational use of natural resources. The addressed topics were Green Areas and
Ecological Reserves, Mobility, Greenhouse Gases and Pollutants Emission, Environmental Education, Fauna, Water and Effluents, Sustainable Buildings, Solid Waste,
Energy, Territorial Use and Occupation, and Management (Lemos et al. 2019).
Since the EP publication, several actions have been developed on different
campuses in order to implement their themes, considering the contextual alignment of their specificities. Among these actions was the Environmental Master
Plans (EMPs) and Pilot Projects (PPs) elaboration, that are projects supported by
SGA/USP resources to develop sustainable and replicable actions in different University contexts; participation in worldwide rankings such as Greenmetric (18th position in 2019, first place in Latin America), as well as taking part in different forums,
as the Climate Change (COP), and the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development (HLPF) at the United Nations (Lemos et al. 2018).
USP’s participation in international forums led the university to consider worldwide frameworks. The United Nations General Assembly established on September
25th, 2015 70/1 resolution a set of 17 global objectives denominated Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), followed by 169 goals to be achieved by 2030, according
to the Agenda 2030 (United Nations 2015).
The sustainable development proposed by SDGs englobes all the three Economic,
Social and Environmental perspectives. The University of São Paulo has sought
to bring its activities to meet the Agenda 2030, collaborating with the society to
achieve the goals proposed by the United Nations. One of the main challenges when
dealing with broad guidelines of international scope is an adequate local context,
thus avoiding a thematic detachment.
The link between the University’s actions and SDGs can be assessed through
network analysis, a worldwide applied approach especially relevant when interrelationships between actors, organizations or themes are required (Batagelj 1998).
With the advance on computer programs, the accessible Gephi Software appears
allowing real-time associations visualization, interactive techniques, data filtering,
and statistics application with a great visual result (Bastian et al. 2009).