Sistema de indicadores de gestión ambiental en una escuela de ingeniería industrial

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the

experience of a school of industrial engineering

that adopted an environmental management

system that includes performance indicators

that encompass metrics of the environmental

implications of the research and education that

the school offers, and measures of how this

education is assimilated by the students, and

taken into account both in their present and

future life.

The paper emphasizes that environmental

management systems are often centered on

the continual reduction of the negative effects

on the environment that an organization may

cause, but, although it is not usual (and hence

this is the originality of this paper), organizations

can also take account of their positive impacts.

Universities might do so because they create and

transmit knowledge and, moreover, they shape

attitudes.

The relevance of the paper lies on the

performance metrics. These findings are useful

for implementing an environmental management

system in any knowledge organization.