A GESTÃO AMBIENTAL E OS BENEFÍCIOS ECONÔMICOS: UM ESTUDO DE CASO DA USINA CORURIPE MATRIZ

Nowadays, the organizations have a preoccupation: to improve their relationship with the environment. In this context, birth the environmental management to harmonize that relationship. The objective of this paper is to analyze the Environmental Management System at Usina Coruripe Matriz and the economics benefices from implantation of it. The research question is “what are the economic benefices of Usina Coruripe Matriz after the adoption of Environmental Management System?” The nature of study was exploratory and descriptive. The kind of research was qualitative and the method was a case study. Was used primary and secondary data. The primary data were collect by depth interview with the Environmental Coordinator and Agricultural Management from organization. The secondary data were collected by institutional reports, papers and newspapers. The results show that the changes were meaningful, specialty to make good use of residues. The use of residues generated important economics results. The other result was an improvement of organizational image in the presence of environmental institutes of government, community and consumer market.