Há política ambiental para a indústria brasileira?

Abstract

The research upon wich this article is based on explores one main issue: is there environmental policy in Brazilian industry? The hypotheses that drived the research among 48 environmental managers assumed the following dimentions: corporate policy for internaI and externaIenvironments; what fact efecttively fostered the present profileof the sector; and socio-political, organizational, and technological impacts of the pollution controI. The main findings: low trade-off between occupational, safety and hearth activities vis-à-vis environmental practices; a determinant public legislation of pollution control as startpoint for internaI practices; a relative integration of the pollution control into productive engineering; low impact of the pollution control over occupational, helth and safety environment.